Cities Quotes · Page 81

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

— Frederick Lenz

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

— Robin Williams

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

— Richard Peck

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face…

— Conrad Aiken

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

— Paul Vixie

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

— Donald Trump

We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos…

— Fat Joe

“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get…

— Jane Jacobs

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly…

— Amelia Barr

Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when…

— Anonymous

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid,…

— Bill Alexander

Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City…

— Gerald Celente

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's…

— Charles de Lint

I don't know if I'm going to jail for three weeks, three months, or three years, but I think what I've done…

— Joshua Wong

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once…

— Walt Whitman

I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

As much as politicians, any politicians, Democrat or Republican, are saying they're trying to help the schools, it's hard because our country…

— Ansel Elgort

To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then…

— Keith Ellison

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little…

— Samuel Johnson

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

— Nat Hentoff

Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their…

— Orson Pratt

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.…

— Anonymous

Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied…

— Barack Obama

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with…

— Wendell Berry

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

— Ralph Klein

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers…

— Garry Winogrand

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

— Joe Biden

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new…

— Jane Jacobs

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

— Evan Esar

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the…

— Tom Hiddleston

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the…

— Joe Lhota

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters…

— Democritus

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

— Salman Rushdie

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

— David Lynch

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete…

— Jane Jacobs

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

— Cassandra Clare

I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a…

— Kate DeAraugo