Cities Quotes · Page 35

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

— Charles Hanson Towne

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

— Robin Leach

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

— Themistocles

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

— Curtis Hanson

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

— Reynolds Price

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

— Steve Earle

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their…

— Jesse Jackson

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

— Lucy Powell

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

— Martin O'Malley

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having…

— Martha Gellhorn

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses…

— Laozi

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

— Charles Roven

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text…

— Jane Levy

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of…

— Brian Posehn

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted…

— Raquel Cepeda

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking,…

— Matt Kemp

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square…

— Simon Armitage

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and…

— Sarah Parcak

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,…

— Bob Beauprez

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself…

— Iggy Pop

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a…

— Plutarch

“I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and…

— Donald Barthelme

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect…

— Charles Loring Brace

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in…

— Harlan Ellison

My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,…

— John Cheever

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who…

— Anonymous

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.…

— Dennis Kucinich

In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

With the sweat of your brow. Rapture can become your city as well.

— Andrew Ryan

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

— Matt Skiba

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

— Bob Cousy

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

— Drake

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

— Edwin Markham

I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court.

— Greg Abbott