Cities Quotes · Page 47

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of…

— Jane Byrne

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

— Jacque Fresco

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get…

— Robert E. Howard

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes…

— Barbara Walters

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to…

— Frank Gehry

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

— Timothy Keller

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

— Gerald Chertavian

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

— Italo Calvino

Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear,…

— Simon Critchley

Baltimore holds a lot of mystery for me still, despite the fact I've lived there most of my life. I think its…

— Matthew Porterfield

Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our…

— Greg Laurie

Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their…

— H. Rider Haggard

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City…

— Jimmy Wales

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in…

— Raj Chetty

I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people…

— Mohsin Hamid

We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it…

— Howard Mansfield

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,…

— Anonymous

Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad…

— Larry the Cable Guy

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may…

— Caryll Houselander

Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have…

— Charles Landry

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a…

— Anonymous

I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked…

— Judd Nelson

My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also…

— Lupe Fiasco

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big…

— Dan Savage

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City.…

— Hayley Atwell

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

— Steve Chabot

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest…

— Ed Koch

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in…

— Yoko Ono

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

— Alan Bold

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most…

— John Green

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

— C. Wagner

Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.

— Rocky Anderson

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…

— William J. Brennan

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

— Elin Hilderbrand

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in…

— Fred Wilson

I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a…

— Louise Nurding

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the…

— William J. Clinton

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at…

— John Gunther

Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved -…

— Winifred Holtby