Great Cities Quotes - Page 5

• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

  Billy Corgan

  Winning, Cities, Organization

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• They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

  Salman Rushdie

  Destiny, Cities, Crowds

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Pyramids

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for. It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it’s time to move on. I’m sure they’ve moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Moving, Play, Cities

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• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Thinking, Sea

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1035, Bantam

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• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

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• We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.

  Clive Barker

  New York, War, Lying

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Yield, Cities, Temptation

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.29, Booklassic

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• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Home, Cities

  Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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• What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Cities, Monsters

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• 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

  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Moving, Practice, Cities

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• To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

  Chris Rose

  Meaningful, New Orleans, Cities

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Night, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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• I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

  Eli Broad

  Cities, Needs

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• For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

  Greg Oden

  Cities, African American, Portland

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

  Cate Blanchett

  Cities, Different, Common

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• A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Spurs

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

  Friedrich Engels

  Air, Cities, Way

  Friedrich Engels (1958). “The condition of the working class in England”

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• New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

  John Gregory Dunne

  New York, Congratulations, Self

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