Cities Quotes

• I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Running
  • Film
  • Form

• Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

  

  E. B. White
  • Giving
  • City
  • Passion

• After watching Watford against Manchester City last night

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • City

• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Serious
  • Civilization
  • Attraction

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!

  

  Kabir
  • House
  • City
  • Water

• Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Magic
  • Spring

• I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Habit

• New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • City
  • New York
  • Levels

• No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

  

  John Vinocur
  • Change
  • Mankind
  • Arguing

• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Century
  • Houston
  • Denver

• Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Different
  • City

• The whole function of cities has been transformed.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Cities
  • Function
  • Transformed

• There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.

  

  Van Jones
  • Good
  • Want
  • Fighting

• The City that knows how.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Cities
  • San Francisco

• I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"

  

  Valerie June
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Cities

• There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Christ
  • Lord
  • Hills

• I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Alive
  • Favorite
  • Amsterdam

• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Poverty
  • Rich
  • Poor

• A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system. The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.

  

  Carlos P. Romulo
  • People
  • World
  • Spirit

• Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Small
  • City
  • Tennis

• The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Culture
  • Civilization
  • Seeds

• New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

  

  Russell Baker
  • World
  • Running
  • Sidewalk

• 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

• Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

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