Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to…

Barcelona are a great club, and Brazilians have always done well there.

— Robinho

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy

— Stefon Harris

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta,…

— Teju Cole

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are…

— William Butler Yeats

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

— Henry Miller

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if…

— Giacomo Casanova

There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's…

— Walt Whitman

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with…

— Samuel Johnson

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

— David Letterman

If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where…

— Enrique Penalosa

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final…

— Richard M. Daley