Cities Quotes

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. — Tom Vilsack
I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in… — Dwyane Wade
I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a… — Christopher Walken
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point… — Christopher Walken
Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's… — Vera Wang
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of… — Evelyn Waugh
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city. — Lil Wayne
I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to… — Sigourney Weaver
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted… — Sigourney Weaver
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal… — Ai Weiwei
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell… — Paul Weller
While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for… — Allen West
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an… — Allen West
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too… — Shaun White
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some… — Shaun White
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city… — Walt Whitman
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. — Billy Wilder
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. — Juan Williams
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic… — Juan Williams
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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