Cities Quotes and Sayings

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
- William Faulkner

If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
- Robert Kennedy

I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
- Rudyard Kipling

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
- Walter Winchell

Even cities have their graves!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
- Herbert Prochnow

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
- Plutarch

There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.
- Ross MacDonald

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, “I took a taxi.
- Andre Maurois

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
- Plato

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
- Lewis Mumford

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
- William Shakespeare

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
- Francois Rabelais

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?
- Henny Youngman

What is the city but the people?
- William Shakespeare

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
- Epicurus

Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind, For we go seeking cities that we shall never find.
- John Masefield

When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
- Hugh Newell Jacobsen

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls – whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.
- Mark Helprin

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
- Marcus Terentius Varro

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