2,405 Quotes About Cities

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year, ... If we don't use this power, cities will die.

New York is one of the few premier international cities without a direct mass transit link between its airports and the city center, ... This can be done, and it must be done.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell