Best Great City Quotes

70 Great City quotes by 58 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. — Patrick Ewing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman
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
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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