City Quotes
4019 quotes by 2725 authors
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with…
— Margaret Atwood
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell…
— Alec Baldwin
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little…
— Christian Bale
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I would love to do a television show in New York City.
— Ellen Barkin
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I love New York City; I've got a gun.
— Charles Barkley
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
— Mario Batali
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The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
— Mario Batali
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
— L. Frank Baum
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are…
— Bob Beauprez
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
— George Ade
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and…
— Dirk Benedict
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