2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Barbara Jordan
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    But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

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  • Author Boris Johnson
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    The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

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  • Author Charles Jencks
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    The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

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  • Author Clive James
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    Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

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  • Author Derek Jarman
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    The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

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  • Author Dr. John
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    Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

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  • Author Edgerrin James
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    Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

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