Cities Quotes · Page 70

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into…

— Sarah Palin

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City…

— Cecily McMillan

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

— Donald Trump

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to…

— Anonymous

Tijuana is a baby compared to pre-Hispanic cities like Puebla or Oaxaca, the birthplace of mole.

— Marcela Valladolid

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever…

— Ani DiFranco

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

— Ginni Rometty

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…

— Jane Jacobs

The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,…

— James G. Frazer

“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Five hundred murders is a lot of murders. It's hard to believe, 500 is like supposed to be good?But we went from…

— Donald Trump

Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of…

— Doug Rice

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to…

— Tom Shales

The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I…

— Tommy Hilfiger

I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the…

— Mike Royer

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New…

— Jon Stewart

Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to…

— Henry Miller

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better,…

— Douglas Engelbart

As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most…

— Peter Van Loan

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city…

— Edith Wharton

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit…

— Burial

Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration.

— David Letterman

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

— Joseph Rykwert

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so…

— China Mieville

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

— Mason Cooley

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

— Edward Glaeser

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

— Lionel Johnson

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.

— Jim McKelvey

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

— O. Henry

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

— Mark Helprin

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

— Will Rogers

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what…

— Chris Harrison

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

— Steve Yzerman