New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went… — Alberto Salazar Copy Share Image
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars. — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows… — Moby Copy Share Image
New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing. — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
