Cities Quotes · Page 46

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

— John Milton

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

— Taylor Lautner

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

— Dianne Feinstein

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you…

— Sloane Crosley

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

— Walt Whitman

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New…

— Jemaine Clement

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

— Terry O'Quinn

In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages…

— William Butler Yeats

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams,…

— Jim Evans

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis,…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I decided to join Barcelona because it's a sunny place. They are building for the future and want to win titles, and…

— Ronaldo

Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs,…

— David Letterman

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to…

— Eddie Van Halen

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you…

— James Frain

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a…

— Mary McCarthy

We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have…

— Garrison Keillor

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,…

— Edward Abbey

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…

— Lester R. Brown

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had…

— Vicki Baum

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals…

— Yann Martel

With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with…

— Cathy O'Neil

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in…

— John Steinbeck

From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in…

— Joel Makower

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

— David Cross

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see…

— Eduardo Paes

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

— Bridget Moynahan

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of…

— Frederick Lenz

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn…

— Nile Rodgers

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white…

— Hannibal Buress

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

— Francis Picabia

A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,

— Jan Gehl

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

— Zubin Mehta

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that’s pretty/Is the thought of getting out,

— Jake Bugg

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a…

— Vera Nazarian

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

— Jack Irons

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in…

— Jesse Eisenberg

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

— Ilana Glazer

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a…

— Abigail Breslin

“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...”

— Tim Winton