I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there! — David Berg Copy Share Image
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic… — Alan Brien Copy Share Image
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood. — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town… — L. Welch Pogue Copy Share Image
Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I… — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And… — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to… — Josephus Copy Share Image
I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord…In the royal city of the… — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I love New York very much, and it was very important for me to spend my 20s in New York City. You're… — Christine Evangelista Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
“And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV, — Donald Sterling Copy Share Image
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider. — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
