Top Cities Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Cities quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Attila the Hun
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
- Attila the Hun
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Image of Cecil Beaton
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
- Cecil Beaton
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Image of Calvin Trillin
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
- Calvin Trillin
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Image of Suketu Mehta
In the looking, I found the cities within me.
- Suketu Mehta
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Image of Alexander Woollcott
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
- Alexander Woollcott
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Image of Silvio Berlusconi
In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.
- Silvio Berlusconi
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Image of Philip Gilbert Hamerton
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Image of John Berendt
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.
- John Berendt
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Image of Brian Selznick
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.
- Brian Selznick
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Image of Dawn Powell
There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.
- Dawn Powell
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Image of David Ortiz
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
- David Ortiz
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Image of Julia Gregson
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.
- Julia Gregson
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Image of Aidan Quinn
I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.
- Aidan Quinn
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Image of Jack Paar
I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.
- Jack Paar
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Image of Mary Pope Osborne
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.
- Mary Pope Osborne
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Image of Ed Miliband
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.
- Ed Miliband
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Image of Jeanne DuPrau
Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be found.
- Jeanne DuPrau
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Image of Harold Washington
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
- Harold Washington
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Image of Tahir Shah
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
- Tahir Shah
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Image of Ellen Kushner
In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.
- Ellen Kushner
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Image of Earl Warren
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
- Earl Warren
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Image of William J. Brennan
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
- William J. Brennan
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Image of W. G. Sebald
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
- W. G. Sebald
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Image of Betty White
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
- Betty White
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Image of Brian Sandoval
Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4.
- Brian Sandoval
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Image of Daniel Silva
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.
- Daniel Silva
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Image of George Sterling
The cool, grey city of love.
- George Sterling
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Image of Alan Garner
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
- Alan Garner
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Image of Moshe Safdie
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
- Moshe Safdie
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Image of Candice Swanepoel
I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me.
- Candice Swanepoel
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Image of Robert Scheer
He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.
- Robert Scheer
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Image of Stacy Schiff
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.
- Stacy Schiff
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Image of Thomas Heywood
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
- Thomas Heywood
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Image of James Woods
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'
- James Woods
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Image of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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Image of Rabih Alameddine
What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
- Rabih Alameddine
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Image of Alex Steffen
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
- Alex Steffen
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Image of Alex Steffen
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.
- Alex Steffen
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Image of Jonathan Raban
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
- Jonathan Raban
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Image of Arlene J. Chai
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
- Arlene J. Chai
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Image of Katherine Cecil Thurston
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
- Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Image of Anne Mallory
I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.
- Anne Mallory
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Image of Lewis Mumford
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.
- Lewis Mumford
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Image of Lincoln Steffens
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
- Lincoln Steffens
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Image of Alexander Graham Bell
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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Image of Alison Croggon
I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
- Alison Croggon
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Image of Terence Stamp
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.
- Terence Stamp
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Image of Nicholas Negroponte
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.
- Nicholas Negroponte
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Image of Sharyn McCrumb
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged
- Sharyn McCrumb
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Image of Pauly Shore
I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around.
- Pauly Shore
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