2,405 Quotes About Cities

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

It's a tale of two cities right now.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.