2,405 Quotes About Cities

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.

Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?""Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

A lot of guys I know loved 'Sex and the City.' They'll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.