American City Quotes

31 American City quotes by 31 unique authors

• Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. — Bill Bryson
• 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
• The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill
• There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event. — Irwin Redlener
• 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
• Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris
• The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city. — Tom Piazza
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• L.A. is my American city. — Tom Ford
• No other American city is so intensely American as New York. — Anthony Trollope
• 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
• The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. — Christopher Hitchens
• 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
• Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. — Studs Terkel
• New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters
• 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:

• 1 American City Quote by Wesley Morris
• 1 American City Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 American City Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 American City Quote by Tom Piazza
• 1 American City Quote by Tom Ford
• 1 American City Quote by Studs Terkel
• 1 American City Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 American City Quote by Pete Hamill
• 1 American City Quote by Norman Mailer
• 1 American City Quote by Newt Gingrich
• 1 American City Quote by Michelle Alexander
• 1 American City Quote by Meredith Willson
• 1 American City Quote by Marc Morial
• 1 American City Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 American City Quote by John Henry Cox
• 1 American City Quote by John Green
• 1 American City Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 1 American City Quote by Irwin Redlener
• 1 American City Quote by Henry Rollins
• 1 American City Quote by Gallagher
• 1 American City Quote by Ethel Waters
• 1 American City Quote by Eric Alterman
• 1 American City Quote by David Krieger
• 1 American City Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 American City Quote by Charlie Pierce