2,405 Quotes About Cities

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

This is a wanton and indiscriminate destruction of this country's cities and villages, ... There is a lot of evidence of mass killing.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.