Cities Quotes · Page 84

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the…

— Jeremy Irvine

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

— Christopher Penczak

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

— Jane Jacobs

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

— Will Rogers

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

— Roald Dahl

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

— Angela Carter

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

— Marcus Terentius Varro

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

— Robert Paul Weston

There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead,…

— Bruce Wilkinson

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would…

— Jimenez Lai

Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in…

— Michael Arad

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct…

— Raquel Cepeda

The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of…

— Ron Paul

Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just…

— Laz Alonso

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But…

— Ronald Reagan

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in…

— Saint Augustine

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but…

— Alex Steffen

“After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The…

— Italo Calvino

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man…

— Jonathan Raban

To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly…

— Epictetus

My administration will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal…

— Donald Trump

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

— Jan Gehl

Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup.

— David Letterman

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

— Steve Kornacki

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

— Norton Juster

We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at…

— Frederick Lenz

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it…

— Mary Schmich

I think it's ridiculous. I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there's a lot of problems. If we have…

— Donald Trump

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

— Steve Chabot

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City.…

— Hayley Atwell

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big…

— Dan Savage

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

— Italo Calvino

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

— Alan Bold

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in…

— Yoko Ono

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest…

— Ed Koch

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

— Jacque Fresco

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

— Gerald Chertavian