City Quotes

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. (George Burns)
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. View quote
Augustus
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. View quote
Hesiod
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. View quote
Carl Sagan
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. View quote
Walt Whitman
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. View quote
Groucho Marx
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. (Gore Vidal)
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. View quote
Protagoras
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? View quote
Rocky Marciano
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans. View quote
Kiran Desai
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. View quote
Cyril Connolly
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. View quote
Thomas Browne
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. View quote
Abraham Cowley
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. (Plutarch)
But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it. View quote
Hesiod
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. View quote
Studs Terkel