2,405 Quotes About Cities

In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.