American Cities Quotes

25 American Cities quotes by 23 unique authors

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
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. — Jane Jacobs
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness — Unknown Author
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. — Lee H. Hamilton
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
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
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
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities. — Jack Kerouac
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities — Cecil Beaton
New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities. — Brad Pitt
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
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
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. — P.J. O'Rourke
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
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
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
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
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. — William Gibson
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
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
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. — Virginia Postrel
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip… — Timothy Noah
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where… — Mitch Landrieu
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more… — Mick Cornett

Who Wrote These American Cities Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 American Cities Quotes as follows: