Great Cities Quotes
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Great Cities Quotes & Sayings
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The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings ... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
— Stephen Birmingham
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
— Joseph Straus
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
— Joseph J. Romm
Great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.
— Taylor Lautner
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
— Charles Baudelaire
I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
— Jemaine Clement
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
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)
— Cassandra Clare
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
— Edward Glaeser
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.
— Oswald J. Smith
Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.
— Rila Fukushima
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
— Thomas Seward
The great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...
— Christina Stead
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls. — Conrad Aiken
A great city is a great solitude.
— Hermione Gingold
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
prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.
— Willa Cather
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
— Kenzo Tange
The critics don't build great cities
— Federico Pena
Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.
— Michael Sucsy
Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?
— David Letterman
I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.
— Sidney Crosby
It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.
— Timothy Keller
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
— Glenway Wescott
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
— Mason Cooley
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
— Pierre Charron
It is no madness to sayyou will fall, you great cities. — Hilda Doolittle
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
— Thomas Jefferson
The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.
— Lewis Mumford
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.
— Sam Palladio
