2,405 Quotes About Cities
- Author Matthew Arnold
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
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- Author Michael Arad
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I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.
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- Author Michelle Alexander
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
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- Author Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
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- Author Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
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- Author Nelson Algren
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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
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- Author Nelson Algren
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(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
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- Author Nelson Algren
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For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
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