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“Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.”

Cities Built Circles Typical Malls American Cities Des Moines

Author:Bill Bryson

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.”

Use Cities Greater Mountain Boxes Holes Trash Automobile Rubbish American Cities Packaging Badgers

Author:John Steinbeck

“And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center,the Greek facades of our government builidings in Washington. I defy you to find any American city where the Olympians are not proeminently displayed, in multiple places. Like it or not-and believe me,plenty of people weren't very found of Rome,either-America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the West.And so Olympus is here.And we are here.”

“Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.”

Way Cities Television Urban Planning American Cities

Book:Spook Country

Source: Spook Country

“I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not enable them to bring about their world totalitarian socialist government, disarm the American people and create their New World Order, they'll blow up an American city with an atomic bomb. They will do it. I have said it probably a couple of hundred times.”

“The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.”

Real Today Culture Justice Cities Groups Diversity Social Justice Illness Deprived American Cities

Author:John Henry Cox

“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.”

Cities Broken Noses Broken Heart Chicago Broken Promises American Cities City Of Chicago Loving A Woman

Author:Nelson Algren

“If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.”

Ifs Culture Cities New York Productions Los Angeles Consumption American Cities National Culture

Author:Barbara Kruger

“A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.”

Matter Natural Cities Towns Including Disaster Valleys Small Town Natural Disaster American Cities

Author:Alan Autry

“This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.”

“In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.”

Needs Kind Cities Diversity All Kinds American Cities

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.”

People Men World Way Wells Has Beens Enough Cities Half Century Creation Genius Shots Towns Performing Why Not Village Originality Closing Astonishing Brilliance American Cities Music Man

Author:Meredith Willson

“To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.”

Kind States Age United Cities United States Internet Decades Newspapers Print Rescue Dominant License American Cities

Author:Eric Alterman

“The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness”

Cities Acceptance Endure Testimony Highways Ugliness American Cities

Author:J. Rufus Fears

“Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.”

Voice Cities Century Frank 20th Century American Cities

Author:Pete Hamill

“There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.”

Cities Plans Events Nuclear Terrorist Sufficient Estimation American Cities

Author:Irwin Redlener

“China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.”

Ability Cities China Nuclear Expanding Nuclear War American Cities

Author:Lee H. Hamilton

“In the twilight, it was a vision of power.”

Vision Chicago Twilight American Cities

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.”

Firsts Wells Made Courses Differences Cities Balance Cost Spring Advantage Statistics Dominion Surveys American Cities Cost Of Living

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.”

“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.”

Men War Age Today Cities Half Millions Subjects Majors Prison Decades Discrimination African American Civil War Jail Cycling Parole Branded American Cities Felons Probation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.”

“Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.”

Art Cities New York Chiefs Preoccupation American Cities

Author:Wesley Morris

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.”

Cities Los Angeles Brutal American Cities Comradeship

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities”

Cities San Francisco European Countries American Cities Bay Area

Author:Cecil Beaton

“New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.”

Real Spirit Cities New Orleans American Cities

Author:Brad Pitt

“The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.”

Past Cities New Orleans American Cities

Book:Why New Orleans Matters

Source: Why New Orleans Matters

“Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.”

Country States Cities Majors Strikes Disaster Assistance Scientism American Cities Honolulu

Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka

“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.”

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.”

Needs Happens America Opportunity Challenges Cities Risk Innovation Metaphor Detroit Ingenuity Risk-taking American Cities

Author:Darren Walker

“Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.”

World Opportunity Felt Growth Cities Economic New York Chicago Expansion Really Great Great American American Cities Center Of The World

Author:John Green

“Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady”

World Cities New York Los Angeles Chicago Plastic San Francisco Constellations Great American Great Cities Cities In The World American Cities

Book:Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Source: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

“Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.”

Care Cities Size Friendly Continents San Francisco Acquaintance Hearted Inspection American Cities

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“L.A. is my American city.”

Cities American Cities

Author:Tom Ford

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