Cities Quotes · Page 74

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more…

— Rachel Hartman

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on…

— Woody Allen

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

— Anne Mallory

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

— Greg Lake

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

— Anonymous

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except…

— Storm Jameson

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

— Kenneth Tynan

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who…

— Ray Nagin

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and…

— Themistocles

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people.…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a…

— Billy Graham

Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities -…

— Gary Shteyngart

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how…

— Jesse Eisenberg

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of…

— Neil Peart

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture,…

— Augustus

I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years.…

— Maya Goded

I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for…

— Stephen Colbert

The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues.…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up…

— Malcolm Forbes

What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the…

— Kehinde Wiley

One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import…

— James Howard Kunstler

We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as…

— Larry Hagman

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

— Britt Ekland

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

— Phife Dawg

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

— Donald Trump

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

— Jane Jacobs

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

— Herman Fetzer

I've been traded a couple times, but I've enjoyed the experience of new cities and cultures and all types of things.

— Matt Kemp

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

— Lori Lansens

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

— Star Parker

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

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