Cities Quotes

• Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Dreams
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Clusters

• To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • People
  • Music
  • City

• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Proud

• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Paris

• I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Born
  • Slick

• I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Lost
  • Cities
  • Following

• I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Action
  • Clear
  • Moved

• After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • City
  • Vote
  • Atlantic City

• Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Career
  • City
  • Acting

• I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

  

  Weegee
  • City
  • Lying
  • Murder

• It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Up
  • Great
  • Pretty

• What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • City
  • Police

• The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Purpose
  • Merchants
  • Solicitors

• Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Stop
  • City
  • Random

• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Up
  • Dream
  • City

• I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Nature
  • Running
  • City

• My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • Easy
  • Fit
  • Figures

• In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

  

  Willis Polk
  • Planning
  • Cities

• Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

  

  Wesley Willis
  • Music
  • Looks
  • Pay

• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Country
  • Drawing
  • Fog

• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  

  C. Wagner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Individual

• It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

  

  George VI
  • People
  • Spirit
  • Wall

• Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Helping
  • Careers
  • Wrestling

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