Cities Quotes

4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because… — John Guare
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. — John Milton
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on. — Anthony Weiner
I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles,… — Melanie Chisholm
Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession. — Tahir Shah
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman
There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to… — Steven Saylor
The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way,… — Gilbert Arenas
Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from… — Bill Kraus
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. — Hermann Maier
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,… — Alasdair Gray
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the… — David Simon
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in… — William Cronon
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs,… — Ben Webster
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. — Patrick Geddes
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness — Clarence Stein
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social… — Rose Wilder Lane
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be… — Robert McCracken
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a… — Ambrose Bierce
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop… — Marian Wright Edelman
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. — Heraclitus
When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or… — Paulo Coelho

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