2,405 Quotes About Cities

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

Obviously, it's time. You see what the other new parks have done for the cities involved. It's definitely something we're looking forward to.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called ‘City Fathers’ who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?