(3544 quotes found)
“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city”
George Moscone
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”
Pablo Neruda
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall
“If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi”
Andre Maurois
“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
Nora Ephron
“New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.”
David Letterman
“I love New York City; I've got a gun.”
Charles Barkley
“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford”
Samuel Johnson