Quotes about The City
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The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. Votes: 3
John Lanchester'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say. Votes: 3
Willie GarsonI taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. Votes: 0
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyChicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Votes: 0
Charles Edward MerriamAt the city citadel,citation is for a cit who ennobles his citizenship." Votes: 0
Anyaele Sam ChiysonOh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSt. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. Votes: 0
Valentina MatviyenkoHomesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city. Votes: 0
Christos TsiolkasI doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightI love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. Votes: 0
J. Richard SingletonThe life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Votes: 0
Katharine Lee BatesIn New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Votes: 0
Charlotte Perkins GilmanAll the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. Votes: 0
Henry WilliamsonLet every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAround the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end. Votes: 0
Charles Hanson TowneGoing out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. Votes: 0
Christopher BollenI grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City. Votes: 0
Harland WilliamsDenver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. Votes: 0
John HickenlooperThe city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 0
Leon Battista AlbertiThere is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Votes: 0
Mary Pope OsborneYou can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhen you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
Francesca Lia BlockWashington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
Paul Laurence DunbarSo this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.
Rainer Maria RilkeNew York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde ThurstonIowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin HilderbrandAn interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.
Garrison KeillorIn New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
George D. PrenticeI'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.
Shirley MacLaineI think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
Alex RodriguezThose dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
Anthony J. CarsonLos Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
Ed Begley, Jr.The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
Francis QuarlesI cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
Harold WashingtonI think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
Jemaine ClementBe it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena KapoorThere isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
Patricia BriggsThe city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
Alfred Lord TennysonI regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.
Arthur FrommerLike a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief SeattleIt was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.
Kurt VonnegutThe automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Philip JohnsonDrugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
Bonnie Jo CampbellThis city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
Gerry RaffertyShould I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita
Laurell K. HamiltonNice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
Patrick ModianoThis is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt WhitmanThe same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.
Bubba SparxxxI always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.
Caroline LeavittNew York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
Fran LebowitzNew York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
Michael MooreThis very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
Michel de MontaigneParis has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
Natalie Clifford BarneyVenice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
Peggy GuggenheimI shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.
Russell WestbrookIt's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.
Henry BonillaI enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.
James MaslowI always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.
Kurt FullerI never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
Mark TwainI wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
Nan GoldinIf I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
Noel GallagherThere were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
Phife DawgIt takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.
Timothy KellerParis is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van VechtenThe old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).
Charles BaudelaireHow the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian EkwensiThe beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.
Emma StoneStuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out,
Jake BuggThis is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
Jane JacobsThis is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.
Lauren ConradThank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
Rocky AndersonThe axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
Andy WarholI would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.
Anne MalloryThe volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
Boris JohnsonIt is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
Carlos TevezWhat kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,
Donald SterlingIn every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal,
Enrique PenalosaEvery city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.
Gary HustwitSome people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
Joel SternfeldAs I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
Mason CooleyA fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
Ralph KleinManute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.
Woody AllenChicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.
Chance The RapperThe city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,
Colson WhiteheadDublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
Derek LandyThey should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.
Doug LarsonIf I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career
Lenny BruceWhere the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
Louis Eric BarrierChicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.
Michael SucsyThe city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Philibert Joseph RouxIn a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.
Ayumi HamasakiIt feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
Gayle FormanTo take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
John BanvilleModern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le CorbusierMorning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!
Mehmet Murat ildanMost benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas ChamfortThe war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.
Paul VixieA city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
Pier Giorgio Di CiccoI hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)
Stuart PearceA man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Thomas BrowneI am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
Thomas MeninoOnce fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Walt WhitmanCaen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
Willie BrownI made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
Danny BoyleI don't want to have thousands of people shot in a city where, essentially, I'm the president.
Donald TrumpI didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
Greta Gerwig'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.
Ilana GlazerAre you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Jim MorrisonI come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
John BunyanThe city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.
Kate Chopin[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.
Kurt VonnegutA thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
Rudyard KiplingI am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm JamesonIt was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
David LettermanI'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.
Isaac MarionThe great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.
John CleeseA suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
Mason CooleyIt is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
Nancy SpainA city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
AristotleThe whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.
Bill BurrWhat Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
Candace BushnellNew York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
Isaac SternThe city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Italo CalvinoCity's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.
John Carlos FreyFor we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
John WinthropI just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.
Mark WahlbergI feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.
Matt WertzI always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.
Michiel HuismanHell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.
Steven J LawsonThe young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
Wes MooreI wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Oscar WildeMy soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
Bruce SpringsteenMan will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Franz GrillparzerAny city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
Ginni RomettyThe pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream "¦ Hang in there.
James De La VegaIn the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study
John P. MarquandAn amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.
Karen AbbottYou live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildanNew York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.
Nancy PickardNew York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
Pharoahe MonchA city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter
Pier Giorgio Di CiccoThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Katherina LangerI had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.
Chris PaulNew York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
Colson WhiteheadFor in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Evelyn WaughA great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
Ray DaviesMay every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
Ronald ReaganIf I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
Ruta SepetysWhen God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.
Simon R. GreenCity life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Stephen KingAnd finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
Vito FossellaEbola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'
Bill MaherNew York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?
David LettermanThe year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.
Jason WilesPerhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Norton JusterSometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)
Claudio ReynaCity employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
Jane ByrneTrue enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.
Jay CrownoverIn the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
Jimmy CliffI was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
John PodhoretzGo to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
JonahAs for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
Pearl S. BuckA contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
Raymond WilliamsThe colors. The city. Nothing. But they've got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.
Roddy WhiteI don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.
Shenae GrimesNew York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi MurakamiI really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
Zaha Hadid