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The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness — J. Rufus Fears

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. — Star Parker

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. — J. Richard Singleton

No other American city is so intensely American as New York. — Anthony Trollope

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities. — Brad Pitt

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities. — Jack Kerouac

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. — Kwame Kilpatrick

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. — Jane Jacobs

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. — William J. Clinton

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American. — Shawn Amos

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. — Chief Seattle

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere. — David Byrne

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves. — Martin O'Malley

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. — Virginia Postrel

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. — Wes Craven

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. — Lee H. Hamilton

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. — Jack Kemp

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. — H.L. Mencken

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. — William Gibson

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico. — Duncan Hunter

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. — James Howard Kunstler

Perhaps the most typically American place in America. — James Bryce

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City. — Misty Copeland

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. — Cecil Beaton

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 saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. — P. J. O'Rourke