City Quotes - page 2

It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. (Meg White)
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. View quote
Jerry Rubin
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. View quote
François Hollande
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. (Edward Gibbon)
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. View quote
Christopher Plummer
CHICAGO Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can't be happy in those heels. View quote
Kate Winslet
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. View quote
Djuna Barnes
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him. View quote
Emo Philips
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. View quote
Agatha Christie
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. (Al Sharpton)
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. View quote
Golda Meir
You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker. View quote
Ed Koch
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson