City Quotes


What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. Coriolanus III City 301
If Music is a Place then Jazz is the City Folk is the Wilderness Rock is the Road Classical is a Temple. Vera Nazarian City 165
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. Henry David Thoreau City 130
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle City 116
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris City 109
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris City 109
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. Alphonse De Lamartine City 104
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tacitus City 95
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford City 92
This city now does, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. William Wordsworth City 92
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone City 91
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for. Paul Tagliabue City 90
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. Jeff Hawkins City 89
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. Anatole Broyard City 89
There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. Chaka Fattah City 88
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. Aldous Huxley City 87
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb Colton City 86
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. C. Wright Mills City 85
The city is recruited from the country. Ralph Waldo Emerson City 84
Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again. E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White City 84
I found Rome brick, I left it marble. Caesar Augustus City 83
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. John Fitzgerald Kennedy City 83
The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. Alma Guillermoprieto City 81
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. Rupert Brooke City 81
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. Arnold J. Toynbee City 81
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. Paul Goodman City 80
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers Virginia Woolf City 78
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Friedrich Nietzsche City 76
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. Jimi Hendrix City 76
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert Prochnow City 75
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. Kathleen Norris City 75
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. Frank Lloyd Wright City 75
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper. Hesiod City 75
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. George Santayana City 74
As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be. Ron Francis City 74
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. Jonathan Carroll City 73
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson City 73
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her. Marcus V. Pollio City 73
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000. Tom Hayden City 72
When in Rome, do as Rome does. Ambrose Bierce City 71
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John Fitzgerald Kennedy City 70
Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all. Robert Gurney City 69
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. Regina Spektor City 68
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence City 68
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. Fred A. Allen City 67
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. Jay Leno City 67
The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way. Candace Bushnell City 67
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill. Jon Huntsman, Jr.City 66
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. Madeleine Peyroux City 65
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile. Ray Conniff City 63

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