Quotes About Cities

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

La educación viene de las ciudades, la sabiduría del desierto.»

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

Even in Texas, there's a lot of people who've never been to Lubbock.

One by one, the great cities of the east were either sacked by the Persians or surrendered:

Macedonian centres of population began to look like Greek cities.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis. —EDWARD ABBEY, DESERT SOLITAIRE

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart's affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart's affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.

Viriconium is all the cities there have ever been.' Audsley King, Reminiscences

To the extent that the war planners back in Washington conceived of a firebombing campaign, they thought of hitting six Japanese cities, not sixty-seven. By July, LeMay was bombing minor Japanese cities that had no strategically important industry at all—just people, living in tinderboxes.