Cities Quotes

Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty ...

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a heada...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial,...

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, ...

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make ...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers...

She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with t...

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the ...

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we sa...

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of li...

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. L...

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached after traveling through Japan as w...

Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he ...

Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy...

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar wil...

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been wor...

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of...

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my p...

It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a fe...

The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing ...

A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home t...

…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in th...

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make...

Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also ha...

In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock alon...

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a pa...

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...

For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everythi...

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East...

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they ...

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered...

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capab...

My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one ti...

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bi...

I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog ...

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks...

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecke...

...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses ...

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and h...

Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood ...

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagina...

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little o...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idio...

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between Londo...

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.