Cities Quotes · Page 92

There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.

— Kevin Owens

“I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the…

— Barack Obama

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

— Aldous Huxley

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

— Noah Baumbach

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

— Laura Miller

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be…

— David Levithan

This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

— Lauren Conrad

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a…

— David Berg

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,…

— John Guare

Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very…

— A-Trak

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not…

— Anton Chekhov

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that…

— Protagoras

I was in Philadelphia - a very angry town, Philadelphia. I've never seen a town like this. It's supposed to be the…

— Andy Kindler

For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake…

— Rebecca Solnit

New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s…

— Jonathan Mahler

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is…

— William S. Burroughs

Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on…

— Jonathan Kozol

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century…

— John F. Kennedy

L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness…

— Ian Shoales

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people…

— Arundhati Roy

“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with…

— Jane Jacobs

Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property…

— Terry Pratchett

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere…

— Olivia Thirlby

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

— Nellie McKay

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

— Edward Hoagland

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

— Carl Van Vechten

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

— Christopher Morley

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never…

— Piper Perabo

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved…

— Beth Orton

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

— Lennart Meri

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

— J. Rufus Fears

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

— Martin Firrell

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she…

— Ayn Rand

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and…

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

— Alan Moore

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

— Tadao Ando

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream,…

— Michael Bloomberg