City Quotes

4019 City quotes by 2621 unique authors

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. — Charles Edward Merriam
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. — Carl Sandburg
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers… — Oscar Wilde
Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around… — Greg Laurie
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Unknown Author
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city,… — Minoru Mori
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. — John Winthrop
Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always . . . find there a city of hope in a country that is free .… — Ronald Reagan
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and… — Thomas Paine
People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people. — Unknown Author
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day… — John F. Kennedy
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… — Remy de Gourmont
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all.… — Lady Gaga
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in… — Robert Southey
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall.… — Julian Bond
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had… — Archibald MacLeish
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… — Edward Abbey

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