2,405 Quotes About Cities

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.