I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And… — Alexandra Chando Copy Share Image
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Simon-But werewolfs don't like our kind! Jordan-I do. It's his kind I don't like. They think they're better than everyone else. Jace-No,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments,… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked… — David Simon Copy Share Image
