Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame.… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand… — Ai Weiwei 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
The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money… — Questlove Copy Share Image
the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening. — Willa Gibbs Copy Share Image
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
