Cities Quotes

• 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

• There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Money
  • America
  • America's

• [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

• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Book
  • Peace

• 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

• By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

  

  E. B. White
  • Live
  • City
  • Comfort

• If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Help

• The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • Truth
  • Cities
  • Computer Program

• Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Sweet
  • Lying
  • Sin

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • War
  • Former

• 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

• After watching Watford against Manchester City last night

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • City

• 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

• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • School
  • City

• People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Law
  • Lost

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

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Poverty
  • Dead
  • Souls

• For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Beautiful
  • Maps
  • Subway

• Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Toronto

• We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Walks
  • Outsiders
  • Observing

• The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Music
  • Small

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