2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author David Nicholls
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    The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

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  • Author Gavin Newsom
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    San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

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  • Author Gavin Newsom
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    San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

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  • Author Gavin Newsom
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    San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

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  • Author Gavin Newsom
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    As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

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  • Author Hassan Nasrallah
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    You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

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  • Author Huey Newton
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    Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to.

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  • Author Jacqueline Novogratz
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    In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

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