Cities Quotes

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An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers. — Garrison Keillor
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. — Euripides
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,… — Euripides
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of… — Thomas Carlyle
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno
My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park. — Jay Leno
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben
There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more… — Gloria Naylor
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these… — John Quincy Adams
It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes… — Pat Conroy
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. — Andy Warhol
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when… — Dorothy Day
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs… — Norman Mailer
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. — Hesiod
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that… — Edmund Wilson
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland — Jules Verne
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls -… — Mark Helprin
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct… — Lawrence Durrell
San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it. — Dave Matthews
I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people.… — Bob Dylan
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. — Theophile Gautier
New York is not a city to return to in defeat. — Moss Hart
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… — Jonathan Raban
No other American city is so intensely American as New York. — Anthony Trollope

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