American Cities Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national…
— Barbara Kruger
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
— Jane Jacobs
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The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
— J. Rufus Fears
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China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in…
— Leonard Woodcock
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade…
— Michelle Alexander
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Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about…
— Edwin Black
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
— Jack Kerouac
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
— Cecil Beaton
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New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.
— Brad Pitt
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for…
— Daniel Kahikina Akaka
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Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the…
— Irvin S. Cobb
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.
— Martin Filler
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere…
— Jack Kerouac
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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we…
— John Steinbeck
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
— William Gibson
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Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but…
— Jaime Lerner
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Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open…
— William Cullen Bryant
Who Wrote These American Cities Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 American Cities Quotes as follows: