City Quotes

4019 City quotes by 2621 unique authors

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast… — Frederick Marryat
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go… — Joe Flaherty
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre… — George A. Sheehan
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support… — Barack Obama
I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to… — Charles Spurgeon
I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not enable them to… — Unknown Author
The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would… — Tom Ridge
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color. — Lady Bird Johnson
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said… — Ronald Reagan
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles… — Ilya Bryzgalov
Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no… — Richard Halverson
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. — Charles Dudley Warner
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Augustus
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. — Robert Breault
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout… — Unknown Author
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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