2,405 Quotes About Cities

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

We value our relationship with these cities and counties and are pleased to reach a settlement that allows us all to focus on the future.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.