One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them. — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking. — Allan Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast,… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I really love this city. It’s so very beautiful. It’s so multidimensional.People say it has a darkness and a decadence, which it… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
