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Quotes About City

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
~ Jane Austen
Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.
~ Shakira
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
~ Grace Abbott
In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
~ Barbara Hershey
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
~ Anthony Bourdain
A great city is a great solitude.
~ Hermione Gingold
A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.
~ John Waters
The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
~ Samuel Johnson
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness
~ Unknown
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
~ Robert Southey
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
~ Moby
My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
~ Narendra Modi
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
~ Robin Boyd
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
~ Frankie Cosmos
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
~ L. Neil Smith
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.
~ Chris Hadfield
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.
~ Thomas Gibson
History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.
~ Helene Hanff
The Thames is liquid history.
~ John Burns
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.
~ Eli Broad
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
~ Ron Chernow