Cities Quotes · Page 60

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

— Terry Pratchett

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

— Narendra Modi

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

— Anne Bradstreet

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city…

— E. Nesbit

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

— William Saroyan

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious…

— Amy Poehler

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas,…

— Pierre Salinger

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were…

— Liam Neeson

In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no…

— Lou Barletta

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station…

— Michael Rapaport

It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an…

— Bill Taylor

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors…

— Marshall McLuhan

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign's recent travel schedule shows how seriously it takes this problem. She and her surrogates have held rallies in…

— Mara Liasson

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan…

— Mark Haddon

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,…

— Gary Hustwit

A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing…

— Marissa Meyer

Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of…

— Michael Buckley

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,…

— Mark Steyn

The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled…

— Kevin Powers

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and…

— John Evelyn

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce…

— Lester Beall

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

— Nikita Khrushchev

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

— Evelyn Waugh

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

— Paula Cole

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

— Samuel R. Delany

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

— Ben Lerner

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

— Lori Lansens

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

— Cate Blanchett

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

— John Updike

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

— Robert Orben

My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the…

— John Rowland

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

— Sean O Faolain

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

— Star Parker

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City…

— Anonymous

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

— Teri Hatcher