[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the… — Will Wynn Copy Share Image
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
“In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls. "Man blessed… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days.… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
I think that, when Enrique Pena Nieto invited Hillary Clinton and invited Donald Trump to meet with him here in Mexico City,… — Jose Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world?… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives… — Jonathan Jakubowicz Copy Share Image
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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