City Quotes

4019 City quotes by 2621 unique authors

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the… — Maria Schell
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles.… — Barry Corbin
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. — Nathaniel Parker
Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight… — Charles Manson
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world. — Le Corbusier
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places… — Le Corbusier
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will… — Louis Kahn
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better… — Wendell Berry
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… — Henry David Thoreau
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in… — Anthony Bourdain
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young — Pat Metheny
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second… — Jan Morris
Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in… — Regis Philbin
What is the city but the people? — William Shakespeare
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their… — Alcaeus
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time… — Nolan Ryan
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight:… — Teju Cole
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. — Unknown Author
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,… — Saint Augustine

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