Cities Quotes · Page 34

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

— Iris Chang

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

— Stella Benson

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

— Henri Rousseau

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

— Tahir Shah

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

— Stella Young

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

— Casey Stengel

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

— Alcaeus

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

— Bill Bryson

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

— Orlando Bloom

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice…

— Oswald J. Smith

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

— Andy Warhol

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

— Dan Barber

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

— Cynthia Heimel

Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.

— David Letterman

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a…

— Chicken John

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

— John Layfield

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of…

— Jeff Greenfield

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than…

— Terry Bradshaw

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock,…

— Max Picard

Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For…

— Anonymous

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city…

— John Waters

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in…

— Queen Latifah

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here…

— Zhang Xin

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.…

— Winston Churchill

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population…

— Paul Goldberger

In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his…

— Hassan Blasim

Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the…

— Mark Helprin

I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights…

— Tony Hiss

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global…

— Eduardo Paes

I don't like Paris or being in big cities.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

— Bill Toomey

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

— Michael Urie

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

— Christina Rossetti

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

— Joan Didion

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

— Joey Barton

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

— Jose Mourinho