I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city. — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City… — Richard Bayan Copy Share Image
When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.(… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city,… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York… — Moby Copy Share Image
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in… — Cory Michael Sheldon Copy Share Image
Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch… — Leelee Sobieski Copy Share Image
I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image