Cities Quotes · Page 11

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

— Iris Chang

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

— Stella Benson

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

— Abraham Cowley

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

— Dionne Brand

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

— Tom Piazza

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

— Caetano Veloso

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

— Charles Duhigg

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

— John F. Kennedy

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

— Ronald Reagan

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of…

— Richelle Mead

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I…

— Roger Maris

New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know…

— David Letterman

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

— Pearl S. Buck

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we…

— Magic Johnson

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and…

— John Norquist

I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and…

— Andy Kindler

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out…

— Ioan Gruffudd

“The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land…

— janis ian

And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come…

— Laura E. Richards

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our…

— Nelson Algren

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people…

— Brian Boyle

But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives…

— Friedrich Engels

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because…

— Michelle Obama

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least…

— Jeanne DuPrau

We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in…

— Maximus the Confessor

I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to…

— LeBron James

I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city…

— Scott Westerfeld

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just…

— Junot Diaz

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

— George Gissing

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

— Teju Cole

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

— Clarence Stein

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

— Freida Pinto

“I'm in love with the cities and people I've never met.”

— John Green

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

— Margot Robbie

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

— Danny Boyle