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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

I have seen hell, it is a great city under siege. — Joe Abercrombie

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. — Leon Battista Alberti

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle.

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 in the whole world. — Walt Whitman

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 sports city. — Magic Johnson

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings ... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York. — Stephen Birmingham

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

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. — Eli Broad

Glasgow is a great city. — Nicola Sturgeon

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse

Go for it. It will make a great story. — Gina Greenlee

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street. — Gary Snyder

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.' — Jack Reynor

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

Being a pumpkinhead is great."
"Your HEAD is a PUMPKIN. — Justin Robinson

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work. — Jemaine Clement

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation. — Tom Rath

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. — Mitch Landrieu

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones) — Cassandra Clare

I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city. — Juan Enriquez

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating. — Kim Yuna

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course. — Kathleen Battle

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city. — Brendon Urie

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums. — Julie Gonzalo

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. — Raina Telgemeier

Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds. — Sara Sheridan

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears. — Oswald J. Smith

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. — Cory Booker

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America. — Ellie Kemper

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab. — Michael Bloomberg

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city. — Jane Curtin

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. — Themistocles

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. — Gustavo Dudamel

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great city is a great solitude. — Hermione Gingold

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in. — Jerry Della Femina

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. — Barbara Hershey

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city. — Sarah McLachlan

Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. — Sam Palladio

One great building does not make a great city. — Thomas Heatherwick

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city. — Michael Sucsy

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders. — Nostradamus

To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now. — Louisa May Alcott

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town. — Sidney Crosby

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people. — Tahmoh Penikett

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. — Geoffrey West

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches. — Timothy Keller

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home. — Glenway Wescott

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street's burn. — Daniel Amory

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman

A great American city is fighting for its life. — Marc Morial

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships. — Rudy Giuliani

When a train pulls into a great city I am reminded of the closing moments of an ouverture. — Graham Greene

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. — O. Henry

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood. — Samuel West

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. — Charles Roven

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. — John Guare

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for. — Laura Miller

I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here. — Tom Cruise

I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day. — Nicola Formichetti

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste