Cities Quotes · Page 24

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

— Bill Dedman

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

— Christos Tsiolkas

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

— Charles Edward Merriam

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

— Thucydides

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

— Padma Lakshmi

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

— Alastair Reynolds

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

— Herb Caen

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's…

— Jack Dorsey

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

— Drew Carey

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be…

— Herbert Hoover

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

— Stone Gossard

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!

— David Berg

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

— Willie Brown

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their…

— Jesse Jackson

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

— John Layfield

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a…

— Teju Cole

There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to…

— Fred Armisen

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his…

— Charles Abrams

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a…

— Will Arnett

I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city…

— Charles Barkley

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.…

— Anais Nin

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a…

— Paul Rudd

Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…

— Philip K. Dick

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,…

— Francois Rabelais

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's…

— Alex Rodriguez

Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if…

— Colin Greenland

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos…

— Frank Gehry

It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert…

— Lester R. Brown

The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

— Elayne Boosler

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

— John Guare

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

— Austin O'Malley

“If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

— Rick Ross

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

— Anton Chekhov