This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV, — Donald Sterling Copy Share Image
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider. — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was… — E. Howard Hunt Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the… — Regina Hall Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I… — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town… — L. Welch Pogue Copy Share Image
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood. — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic… — Alan Brien Copy Share Image
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. — Willie Brown Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour! — David Berg Copy Share Image
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it. — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image