City Quotes
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Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
Jaime Lerner
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When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.
Derf
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Konrad Lorenz
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Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.
Margaret Chan
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One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
Annie Parisse
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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.
Robert Frost
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I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there.
Charlie Adam
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London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.
Adam Schlesinger
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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
Barack Obama
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All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.
Joakim Noah
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On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.
Carol Loomis
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The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.
Marcia Muller
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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
Alan Mulally
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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
Lea Salonga
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
Claes Oldenburg
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The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.
Aisha Tyler
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The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
David Hewson
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In 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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In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
Lydia Millet
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We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
Marc Morial
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Philip Johnson
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I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.
Lela Loren
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But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
Genevieve Gorder