20th century Quote by Paul Goldberger

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

— Jimmy Page

Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that…

— Frank Norris

Baltimore and Detroit - they are solid cities.

— Malik Yoba

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

— Mick Ralphs

There's a reason Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix are our four fastest-growing areas. They offer an astonishingly high standard of living for ordinary Americans.…

— Edward Glaeser

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my…

— Herodotus

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

— Anonymous

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

— Tennessee Williams

I think... I love Los Angeles. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is…

— Greta Gerwig

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities…

— Matthew Desmond

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

— Layne Staley

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

— Nora Ephron