2,405 Quotes About Cities

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

I've seen devastation from earthquakes to hurricanes to tornadoes, (but) I've never even imagined destruction like is there in Louisiana and Mississippi, ... This storm was 90,000 square miles and entire cities (and) neighborhoods, one after the other, had been reduced to nothing more than kindling wood.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

Neither one of the cities come first, our kids come first.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.