A Great City Quotes
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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
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
Glasgow is a great city.
— Nicola Sturgeon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
