Quotessence
Home / Topics / Cities Quotes

Cities Quotes

Browse 6851 quotes about Cities.

Related topics

PeopleNew YorkIfsNew York CityWorldThinkingKnowsMenWayCountryStreetsWantYearsBigsTownsFirstsStatesDifferentFeelsHomeWellsKindLooksShouldHas BeensAmericaLittlesStillsNeedsLondonChicagoMadeGreat CitiesWholeHumansNightBeautifulSchoolTryingLongBig CitiesTwoBuildingGivingMayShowsArtHouseSaidRealCommunityHeartMeanDreamParisI CanNationsRunningChildrenSeemsDoeLos AngelesMovingBookCultureEndsMindWarGovernmentInner CityEarthEnoughWould BeHardWalksJobsLightBelieveCities In The WorldCity LifeYoungPersonsSan FranciscoUsedAreasBuiltKidsTogetherWantedFoundImportantProblemStoriesBornSpaceTodayMatterMightSoulWritingmore

Cities Quotes

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”

IfsCountryBigsMightSufferingSocialLosesLinesCitiesBreakPrideStandingStartingReputationDepartmentSilverObscureBeltsPromotionCornColumnsSetbackEditsSpoonsTossVelvetConductingBig CitiesPlaywritingSilver SpoonsSyndicatePeddlingPewter
Author:George Ade
Create image

“The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.”

EndsProblemSocialEffortCitiesModernConditionsSolutionsAidsPortionsConfinedSettlementGreat CitiesHull House
Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Create image

“Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.”

WorldChildrenStatesEarthLastsFatherCitiesLordSonHolyAngelDirectRevelationsNeighborhoodPersecutedHuntedJoseph Smith
Author:Brigham Young
Create image

“Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.”

LooksLongWholeFactsEyeTogetherSidesCitiesBrainGroupsArmsBecomingMouthsAll ThingsEarsParisSensitiveCentreComprehensiveClassificationForerunners
Book:The Burial of the Rats
Create image

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

CountryWould BeThreeDifficultCitiesKnowingFourDemandMeetingsPreparedTricksExtrasAfternoonSenateTwelveFridayCouncilRealisedReactionariesJuliusLunchtimeFriday Afternoon
Author:Ken Livingstone
Create image

“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.”

HumansMadeTodayPoliticalHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsHugeWallTasteInstitutionsEntertainmentLondonAdvertisingEnterpriseSubtleFriendlyTyrantsUsersConformBankingPenetrateSinisterSubservientBanking SystemUser Friendly
Author:J. G. Ballard
Create image

“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”

MenHas BeensMatterPastSinCitiesIgnoranceDestructionSupremeShipsGuiltyInstanceWhat MattersCaptainsCrewWickednessWrecksSinking
Book:Plato's Statesman
Create image

“Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.”

PeopleIfsMenChildrenWarGovernmentSchoolStrongCitiesCasesMilitaryObjectsDutyBearsCitizensFitAuthorityDevilDearObligationRulersRiflesSpearsStrong ManMilitary Service
Author:Martin Luther
Create image

“There are only two ways out for animals at pounds--being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.”

WayTwoAnimalCitiesDogLowsCatRateBotherPoundsAdoptionAdoptedTwo WaysBeing Adopted
Book:The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever
Create image

“The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.”

KnowsDreamWaitingCitiesSkySilentSomedayTowersTrafficSteamGraveyardTombstonePuffChimneysSkyscraperSigns Of Life
Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader
Create image

“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

ThinkingMenGivingFeelsHumansDoeJoyNationsCitiesExampleOughtVictoryReflectionDeserveOvercomingFortuneAffairMortalsUncertaintyEmpiresDreadGood FortuneSuccessionBe Confident
Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete
Create image

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

MenWayFeelsAmericaSongTurnsMemoriesCitiesBoysDarknessStreetsMiddleFieldsPromiseShadowMachinesTownsLipsHungerAwakeningDustMaturityHeatFactoriesAwkwardCoalCrackedRoaringFurnacesOur TownCity StreetsMiddle America
Author:Sherwood Anderson
Create image

“The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.”

KindAmericaLyingHouseCitiesMonthsIndustryBecomingOne DayAnxietySixForgottenDivorceSmellOilTheatreLustPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereLos AngelesExhaustedSix MonthsDisturbingObsoleteImpermanenceMushroomsUneasyAircraftWhiskyBecoming Obsolete
Author:Christopher Isherwood
Create image

“The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!”

WorldSoulMovingCitiesSawsRiversCloudsMy SoulChanging The WorldSilverSpheresFlashTrumpets
Book:Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic
Create image

“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.”

FirstsFeelingsFacesNightCitiesSawsHeardNew YorkSightMeetingsIntuitionRecognitionArtisticNew York CityGreat ArtDay And NightOld FriendsGreat ArtistStonehenge
Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams
Create image

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

IfsMenMindChildrenLittlesStatesBodyMovingCoursesChanceCitiesSeaPlanetsBattleFlowArmyExceedWisestConjectureEbb And FlowWisest Man
Book:Philosophical works
Create image

“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”

PeopleIfsWritingHumansWellsMayReasonFallAsksHuman BeingsCitiesPiecesGenerationsPleaseBenefitsSightUnusualHeirsFalling To Pieces
Book:The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems
Create image