I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them. — Kevin Owens Copy Share Image
When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up… — Jonathan Raban 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
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I did all this stuff that was illegal when I was a kid. I drank beer when I was 15. I smoked… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
