Quotes about Cities

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Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life. — Cecil Rhodes
I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said "Don't Expe — Adam Christing
When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. — Nick Arnette
When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket. — Groucho Marx
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you — Joan Rivers
I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first. — Kee Flynn
We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back. — Bob Hope
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous. — Theo Cowan
I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead. — Sue Kolensky
Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't c — Richard Jeni
In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls."Man ble — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. — Jesse Jackson
Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stationsWe crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night t — Pierre Albert-Birot, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no s — Jerry Herron
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. — Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because — Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos
It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me. — James Baldwin, Another Country
Eventually there are going to be cities in space. — Alan Bean
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. — Daniel Libeskind