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Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.
— Susan Maushart
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
— Joel Stein
Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place) — Stuart Pearce
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
— Robert Orben
Washington ... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
— Richard J. Maybury
A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.
— David Letterman
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
— Stewart Brand
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
— Charlaine Harris
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
— Douglas Wilson
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
— Robert Barry
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
— David Lynch
Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.
— Caetano Veloso
I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
— Michael Bloomberg
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
— Frank Gehry
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
— Oscar Wilde
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.
— Robert Paul Weston
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
— Isaac Hanson
He had the slick, proprietary attitude that small men from big cities sometimes bring toward big men from small cities
— Karan Mahajan
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.
— Herman Fetzer
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
— Jim McKelvey
My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
— Narendra Modi
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
— William Rounseville Alger
It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo
— David McCullough
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
— Michael Bloomberg
People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
— Ernst Reuter
In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.
— Ari Marcopoulos
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
— Marquis De Lafayette
A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
— Charles Baudelaire
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
— David Letterman
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
— William Shakespeare
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
— Hope Edelman
An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.
— Garrison Keillor
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
— Henry Louis Gates
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
— Charles Duhigg
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.
— Dov Davidoff
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Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
— Saddam Hussein
The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.
— Honore Willsie Morrow
I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.
— Audrey Tautou
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
— Harrison Salisbury
The pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...
— Anais Nin
Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.
— Joseph Chamberlain
Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.
— Tom Hiddleston
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
— Roger B. Taney
I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.
— Rachael Price
There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
— Benjamin Franklin
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.
— David Letterman
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things
— James Howard Kunstler
It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.
— Tinchy Stryder
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
— Agnes Repplier
The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.
— David Shibley
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career
— Lenny Bruce
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
— Paul Goldberger
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel De Certeau
It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It's definitely always a place that's going to be very special to me.
— Royce White
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
— Jenny Holzer
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
— Robbie Robertson
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.
— Bertrand Delanoe
The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.
— Joseph Pisani
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
— Charles Bukowski
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
— Drew Carey
Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.
— Jack Hyles
New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.
— Sarah Lafleur
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
— John Vinocur
That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.
— Malcolm Gladwell
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
— Carlos Tevez
True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..
— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
