Cities Quotes

4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors

The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast… — Van Jones
We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key. — Greg Nickels
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall. — Heraclitus
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege… — Sean Hannity
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities… — Alex Jones
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good… — Steffi Graf
A Mediterranean city is really my culture. — Zinedine Zidane
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… — Edvard Munch
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and… — Oswald Spengler
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. — Gianfranco Ferre
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to… — Margaret Mead
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American… — Armistead Maupin
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby
I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely… — Wilford Woodruff
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a… — Howell Raines
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country. — Jack Kelley
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing… — Robert Caro
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous… — Robert Caro
In the looking, I found the cities within me. — Suketu Mehta
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills… — Kevin Powers

Who Wrote These Cities Quotes

2,604 authors contributed a total of 4,162 Cities Quotes, led by these top contributors: