It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be… — George VI Copy Share Image
Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city,… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I… — Stuart Pearce Copy Share Image
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations.… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman,… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating… — James Frey Copy Share Image
After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses,… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could… — Ralph Reese Copy Share Image
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
“Oh you dear companions Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets Cavalry of bridges… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope… — Robert Clive Copy Share Image
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
