Cities Quotes · Page 33

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

— Tom Piazza

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

— Caetano Veloso

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

— George Gissing

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

— Teju Cole

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

— Clarence Stein

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

— Josephine Baker

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity.

— Narendra Modi

I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in…

— Zack Snyder

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

— Philip Johnson

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

— Russell Baker

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

— Markus Zusak

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

— John Banville

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs.…

— Peter Diamandis

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play…

— Alice Cooper

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind…

— Edward Abbey

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in…

— Anonymous

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making…

— Chico Hamilton

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and…

— Joseph Bruce

The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite…

— Joe Lhota

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each…

— Margaret Atwood

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we…

— Gaylord Nelson

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…

— Anne Fadiman

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her…

— David Levithan

You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the…

— Stuart Dybek

The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates…

— St. Catherine of Siena

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

— Freida Pinto

“I'm in love with the cities and people I've never met.”

— John Green

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

— Margot Robbie

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

— Abraham Cowley

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

— Dionne Brand

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

— James A. Michener

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

— Candace Bushnell