Great Cities Quotes - Page 4

• In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

  Tom Peters

  Morning, Business, Writing

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Friends, Cities, Corners

  Charles Hanson Towne (1919). “A World of Windows: And Other Poems”

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• It is no madness to say
  you will fall, you great cities.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Cities, Madness

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Men, Cities, Solitude

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• There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Balance, Dying

  David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Cities, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Urbanization, Cities, Certain

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• A great city is a great solitude.

  Hermione Gingold

  Cities, Solitude

  Hermione Gingold (1963). “Sirens Should be Seen and Not Heard”

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.

  Logan Lerman

  Thinking, Cities, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

  Peter Capaldi

  Art, Cities, Scotland

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• To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.

  John Petrucci

  Kids, College, Guitar

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spring, Cities, Magic

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

  Lewis Mumford

  Memories, Men, Cities

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• The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Cities, Support

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.86, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

  Rory Bremner

  Cities, Voice, Tables

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• Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

  Francois Rabelais

  Strong, Wall, Military

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• A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Cities, May, Stones

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• Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

  Charles Roven

  Cities, Chicago, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drama, Cities, Fantasy

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• We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

  Jane Austen

  Pregnancy, Cities, Looks

  "The Complete Novels".

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Italian, What Matters

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• We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Cities, Balance, Needs

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• I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Men, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.311

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