City Quotes - page 3

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)

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

Eric Bogosian

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

George Mason

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Nelson Algren

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Mignon McLaughlin

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves.

Toni Morrison

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

David Brinkley

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne But tell me, nymphs what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Douglas Engelbart

Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky city. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Flavius Josephus

If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of the town.

Vitruvius

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Anne Rivers Siddons

There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city.

Norman Lewis

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Augusten Burroughs

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Richard Meier

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city... you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

Samuel R. Delany

Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis - in the city ...

Samuel R. Delany

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. (Toyo Ito)

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Christos Tsiolkas

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Brian Selznick

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Bjarke Ingels

[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

Daniel Dennett

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