2,405 Quotes About Cities

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.