2,405 Quotes About Cities

The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

Boy, that 'Cache' is hanging in there. That's really something. Just think, we're going to be over $1 million on just five cities and we have the whole country to go. The film is going to do great.

It has potential within downtown to be the major shopping, entertainment and cultural district for the whole state. Most cities don't have that opportunity.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.