Best Great City Quotes
70 Great City quotes by 58 unique authors
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No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
— Samuel Johnson
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
— Samuel Johnson
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A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
— Rebecca Solnit
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I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children,…
— Thomas Menino
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the…
— Leonard Nimoy
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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
— Patrick Ewing
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Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for,…
— Sanjay Dutt
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His…
— David Berg
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After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria…
— Kristin Chenoweth
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Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera…
— Winston Churchill
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been…
— Billy Corgan
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs,…
— Carolyn Maloney
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I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish.…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign…
— Laurence Olivier
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
— Walt Whitman
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city…
— Walt Whitman
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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