Cities Quotes · Page 8

I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them.

— Timothy McVeigh

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

— Richard Russo

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

— Theophilus London

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

— James A. Baldwin

Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

— Laura Moser

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

— Darrin Patrick

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

— Anthony Albanese

Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.

— Paul Romer

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

— Bill Bryson

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

— Garrison Keillor

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

— Holly Madison

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it…

— Chris Hadfield

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

— Theodore Parker

You are going to hear how he [Donald Trump] is going to address the 11 million, and some other issues as well,…

— Kellyanne Conway

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because…

— Gore Vidal

I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a…

— Lisa Loeb

There's probably never been a more important time for mayors in America than there is right now in this country, because the…

— Marty Walsh

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply…

— Clive Thompson

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that…

— Mike Myers

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to…

— Damien Hirst

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to…

— Walter Benjamin

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that…

— Jonathon Keats

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could…

— Chuck Palahniuk

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from…

— Nathan Wolfe

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to…

— Gore Vidal

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

— Leon Krier

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

— Nostradamus

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

— Jack Kerouac

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

— Henry David Thoreau

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

— Aldous Huxley

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

— Willa Gibbs

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

— Robert Menzies