Cities Quotes · Page 42

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

— Rose George

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

— John Cale

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past…

— Leonard Cohen

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

— Margot Robbie

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

— Walker Percy

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make…

— Sebastian Coe

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi…

— Michael Bloomberg

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent…

— Philip Guston

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There…

— Anonymous

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been…

— Warren Farrell

[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney…

— Hansi Lo Wang

Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know,…

— Campbell Newman

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part…

— Thomas Frank

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that…

— David Grinspoon

The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of…

— Walt Whitman

It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot…

— Westbrook Pegler

We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our…

— Wynton Marsalis

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake…

— Robert Fisk

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

— Alex Steffen

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

— William Cobbett

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet…

— Richard Rogers

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than…

— Robert MacNeil

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have…

— Hilda Doolittle

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

— Edgerrin James

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

— Lenny Bruce

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

— Michael Bierut

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was…

— Ed Westwick

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy…

— Natalia Kills

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

— Annie Wersching