American City Quotes
31 American City quotes by 31 unique authors
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
— Bill Bryson
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I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not enable them to…
— Unknown Author
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The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
— John Henry Cox
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A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small…
— Alan Autry
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This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of…
— Newt Gingrich
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a…
— Meredith Willson
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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the…
— Eric Alterman
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Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.
— Pete Hamill
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
— Irwin Redlener
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The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice…
— Michelle Alexander
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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
— Wesley Morris
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The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.
— Tom Piazza
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White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a…
— Tom Robbins
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I…
— John Green
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Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear…
— David Krieger
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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt…
— AnnaLynne McCord
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Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San…
— Norman Mailer
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L.A. is my American city.
— Tom Ford
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
— Anthony Trollope
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
— Christopher Hitchens
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single…
— Carl Sagan
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
— Studs Terkel
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New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
— Ethel Waters
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Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Who Wrote These American City Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 31 American City Quotes, led by these top contributors: