Cities Quotes

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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. — James M. Cain
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most… — Malcolm Forbes
New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some… — Jonathan Mahler
While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver… — Sam Sifton
She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and… — Piper Perabo
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and… — Walker Evans
Thereâ€™s no Democratic way to run a city and thereâ€™s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a… — Buddy Cianci
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.… — Wally Lamb
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships… — L. Ron Hubbard
Chicagoâ€™s neighborhoods have always been the cityâ€™s greatest strength. — Jane Byrne
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark.… — Edwin Way Teale
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me… — Leon Trotsky
With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting… — Bill Schuette
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read… — Dermot Healy
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct,… — Shelley Berkley
If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you… — Jim Rogers
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going… — Jim Rogers
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew… — Norton Juster

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