Cities Quotes and Sayings

In the busy haunts of men.
- Felicia D. Hemans

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A rose-red city half as old as Time.
- Dean John William Burgon

In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
- Gary Washburn

If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
- J. B. Phillips

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
- John Milton

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.
- Henry Miller

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
- Rudyard Kipling

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- Walt Whitman

Seven cities warr’d for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
- Thomas Heywood

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
- Lord Byron

He  found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
- Caius Tranquillus Suetonius

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
- Desmond Morris

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
- Alvar Aalto

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
- Ben Hecht

God made the country, and man made the town.
- William Cowper

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
- Cyril Connolly

Every man cannot go to Corinthum.
- Horace

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
- Oprah Winfrey

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