City Quotes
4019 City quotes by 2621 unique authors
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From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several…
— Corey Taylor
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How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
— Mark Twain
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
— Graeme Souness
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Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in…
— Galen Rowell
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a…
— Berenice Abbott
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The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.
— Brendan Rodgers
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It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most…
— Barry Sanders
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Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.
— Joey Barton
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I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win,…
— Randall Cunningham
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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek…
— Helen Prejean
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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what…
— Hal Higdon
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air…
— Lester R. Brown
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There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
— John F. Kennedy
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
— Leonard Cohen
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We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless…
— Caryll Houselander
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In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on…
— Pope Francis
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
— Abraham Cowley
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or…
— Margaret Mead
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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
— Jerry Della Femina
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
— A J Liebling
Who Wrote These City Quotes
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