Cities Quotes · Page 44

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

— Evan Esar

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers…

— Garry Winogrand

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

— Ralph Klein

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new…

— Jane Jacobs

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

— Joe Biden

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with…

— Wendell Berry

We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos…

— Fat Joe

The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had…

— Che Guevara

Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent…

— C. J. Wilson

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of…

— Anonymous

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss,…

— Sylvia Earle

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is…

— Gary Hustwit

The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them,…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and…

— Nick Kroll

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago…

— Daniel Pipes

We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who…

— Mark Durie

“She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers the secret silence of…

— William Gibson

If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're…

— Barack Obama

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,…

— John Amos Comenius

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,…

— Italo Calvino

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about…

— Gayle Forman

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon…

— Virginia Lee Burton

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city…

— Enrique Penalosa

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

— Mitt Romney

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

— George Orwell

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

— John Kruk

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry…

— Bob Dylan

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature…

— David Letterman

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God…

— Billy Graham

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

— Marco van Basten

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

— Malachy McCourt

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We…

— Robert Barry

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

— Karl Pilkington

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

— Richard M. Daley

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

— Adolf Loos

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its…

— Herb Caen