Cities Quotes

• And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blind
  • Oblivion
  • Swerve

• Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Growth
  • Poor
  • Conditions

• If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

  

  Banksy
  • School
  • City
  • Names

• 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

• Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city.

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Sports
  • New York
  • Queens

• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Fine
  • Hills
  • Castles

• Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• 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

• People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.

  

  Killer Mike
  • Problem
  • Pushing
  • People Say

• 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

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

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Serious
  • Civilization
  • Attraction

• Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Working
  • Cities
  • Swaraj

• I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.

  

  Carmine Appice Cactus
  • Different
  • Reputation
  • Timing

• 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

• The whole function of cities has been transformed.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Cities
  • Function
  • Transformed

• 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

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

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Culture
  • Civilization
  • Seeds

• It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

  

  W. L. George
  • Die
  • Cities
  • Killed

• We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Opportunity
  • Israel
  • Holy

• The City that knows how.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Cities
  • San Francisco

• 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 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

• 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

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