Best Great City Sayings

70 Great City quotes by 58 unique authors

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the… — Rebecca Solnit
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph… — Dawn Powell
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. — Charles Baudelaire
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move… — Michel de Certeau
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to… — Joe Biden
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One great building does not make a great city. — Thomas Heatherwick
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great… — Magic Johnson
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that… — Neil MacGregor
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. — Rory Bremner
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of… — Dave Winfield
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the… — Bible
I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our… — Richard M Daley
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for. — Laura Miller
Tough way to end a season but I am truly blessed to have the privilege to play for such a great city, congrats to the… — Kevin Durant

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