Quotes about Cities

"And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four."
-Jerry Coleman

"After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire."
-Charles Krauthammer

"In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings."
-Delia Ephron

"A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations."
-Charles Abrams

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

"The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush."
-Ada Louise Huxtable

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

"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
-Billy Wilder

"It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest."
-V. S. Naipaul

"They like to use Abilene as their poster child for mid-(sized) cities and what can happen."
-Lynn Barnett

"In all of the cities where we have newspapers, we run the business."
-Tony Ridder

"Counties are rural, or should be rural. Cities are urban, and the attention should be different."
-Gary Price

"Cities must be fun."
-James Rouse

"This [region] was being eaten up by sprawl, not only the land but the cities."
-Andres Duany

"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
-Suzanne Fields

"Denver would be one of our key cities, for sure, ... especially with this facility."
-Jim Jennings

"This will help accelerate the concerted development of cities and rural areas."
-Cui Gonghao

"The cell phone towers and the boundaries of the cities are not exact."
-Lesley Sillaman

"We have an urban forest that a lot of cities would love to have, but don't, because their cities are already built out."
-Kevin Beck

"I think if there was a dirty bomb attack in any of our major cities, we would be very unprepared."
-Chris Shays

"I would like to see what they do in Bethlehem extend to the other cities."
-Tony Hanna

"Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters."
-Alfonso Felder

"We thought those cities would be able to sustain a regional jet profitably."
-Bill Mishk

"The Bush administration has never cared much for cities, and by extension, the people who live in them."
-Mark Gottdiener

"There's a bunch of cities that just have one."
-Ryan Maccarthy

"Cities and towns need permission for truck bans."
-Jon Carlisle

"Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor."
-Joel Kotkin

"There are some things cities can go after and some things they can't."
-Tom Hudson