2,405 Quotes About Cities

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.