Cities Quotes · Page 81

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.

— Brent Faiyaz

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver…

— John Updike

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

— Sade Adu

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of…

— Mary Jo Putney

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

— Ronald Koeman

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse…

— Anonymous

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses.…

— Benjamin Carson

When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and…

— LeCrae

Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your…

— Cathy Hughes

Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part…

— Willie Stargell

The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf…

— Joseph J. Romm

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive…

— Claude Monet

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate…

— Anonymous

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and…

— Jack Kerouac

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,…

— Susan Sontag

We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri,…

— Sterling K. Brown

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the…

— Jane Jacobs

If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the…

— Tom Lehrer

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

— John Banville

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

— Markus Zusak

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

— Russell Baker

I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in…

— Zack Snyder

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

— Philip Johnson

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity.

— Narendra Modi

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

— Tennessee Williams

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

— Bruce Springsteen

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

— Josephine Baker

I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

— Rick Moranis

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that…

— Gregory David Roberts

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not…

— Mitch Landrieu

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

— Carlos Tevez

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven