Cities Quotes

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Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. — Frederick Stanley Maude
In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities,… — John Ashcroft
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long… — David Ben-Gurion
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,… — James A. Baldwin
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then,… — Malcolm Cowley
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced… — Ernest Gruening
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of… — John Gunther
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. — Le Corbusier
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always… — Norman Mailer
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities… — Frances Trollope
A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town… — E. Michael Burke
When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this… — Diana Krall
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi". — Andre Maurois
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over… — Nelson Rockefeller
Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about… — Charley Reese
I think it's wonderful to be here. And what a beautiful city you have here. — Woody Harrelson
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love… — Irv Kupcinet
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy… — John Gunther
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This… — Yitzhak Shamir
When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that… — John Grant
We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City. — Ozzy Osbourne
I love this city [Tel Aviv]! — Missy Elliot
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why… — Edwin Markham

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