City Quotes

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Arthur Erickson
- City
- Engineering
Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.

Frank McCourt
- Mother
- City
- Church

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

Charles Dickens
- People
- Evil
- Triumphs
It's one thing to change regulations on the city level, another on the state, and still another on the federal. The higher the levels are, the more difficult change gets.

Adam Neumann
- City
Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.

Brian Tyree Henry
- Black
- Culture
- City
You know, Republicans went to Washington to change the culture, to change the city. Instead, they became changed by Washington. Now, it doesn't do any good for us to look backwards or to fight amongst ourselves. We need to be looking forward.

Bobby Jindal
- Good
- Culture
- City
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

Bill Mollison
- House
- Road
- Sun
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Joe Lhota
- Mother
- Father
- Dad