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Quotes About Cities

I travel a lot, but I'd love to go back to cities such as Paris, Las Vegas, New York, and London with my family. When I'm there touring with the band, I have to work, and it's no fun at all.
~ Arnel Pineda
I have four favorite places for womanizing: L.A., Miami, New York, and Vegas.
~ Too Short
There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.
~ Sarah Parcak
Millions of Indians undertake their daily commute in our cities using their own vehicles, cabs, or other modes of personal transportation. With Shuttle, we intend to create a comfortable and reliable commute experience for them at the tap of a button on their smartphones.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.
~ Travis Kalanick
I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.
~ Alexander Armstrong
In 2011, I started a nonprofit organization, Venture for America, to help bring talented young entrepreneurs to create thousands of jobs in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Birmingham, Baltimore and other cities around the country.
~ Andrew Yang
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Since 1818, the city had spread out along the river, warehouse by warehouse, factory by factory. Judge Woodward's wheels had been squashed, bisected, pressed into the usual rectangles.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Toronto Sydney New Delhi
~ Jennifer Weiner
fell in love with my country—its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. . . . It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
~ Jess Walter
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.
~ Roy Barnes
We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
~ Ben Elliot
All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.
~ Jim Norton
There's a lot of cities in Florida, there are many areas that are suburban, many areas that are rural, you know, many areas that are dense cities like ours.
~ Francis X. Suarez
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
~ Harlan Coben
New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
~ Pete Hamill
I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.
~ Richard Hayne
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath's vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
~ Vera Nazarian
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
~ Conrad Aiken
The best thing about London is Paris.
~ Diana Vreeland