Cities Quotes · Page 42

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.

— Sonam Wangchuk

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon…

— Russell Kirk

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

— Donna Leon

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

— Karl Kraus

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a…

— Joe Lhota

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see…

— Olga Kurylenko

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,

— Colson Whitehead

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank…

— Laura Kightlinger

Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are…

— Phyllis McGinley

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where…

— Edward Abbey

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

— Dale Jamieson

There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best…

— Clark Griffith

I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms…

— Bob Dylan

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York…

— Adrienne Bailon

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about…

— Richard Hell

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was…

— Kathy Griffin

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots…

— James Woods

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans…

— David Simon

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to…

— Robert Montgomery

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The queen's eyes smouldered. "I know my own kind when I see them, and right now there is one in these city…

— Marissa Meyer

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil…

— Christopher Isherwood

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me…

— Julie McNiven

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

— Scott Westerfeld

I was able to explore the different cities I was in by running, so it just became my main form of exercise.

— Andi Dorfman

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my…

— Adelaide Clemens

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

— Nancy Pickard

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

— Alex Rodriguez

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the…

— William J. Clinton

I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a…

— Louise Nurding

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in…

— Fred Wilson

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

— Helmut Schmidt

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

— Rachel Griffiths

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

— Isaac Hanson

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

— Margaret Mead

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks,…

— Janice Hahn