2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Anton Chekhov
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    When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

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  • Author Barbara Coloroso
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    Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

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  • Author Barry Commoner
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    Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

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  • Author Billy Campbell
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    Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

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  • Author Billy Campbell
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    If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

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  • Author Billy Corgan
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    I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

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  • Author Billy Corgan
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    As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

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  • Author Brandi Carlile
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    Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

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