Great Cities Quotes - Page 7

• Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Cities, Shoes, California

  "Bitsie Tulloch Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of Grimm and Spills Her Favorite Obsessions!". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 30, 2012.

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• No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

  Allan Jacobs

  Cities, Parking, Known

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

  Epictetus

  Compassion, Cities, Brotherhood

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• A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

  P. D. James

  Men, Cities, Violence

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• The critics don't build great cities

  Federico Pena

  Cities, Political, Critics

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• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Godfried Danneels

  Ocean, Ice, Cities

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• I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Eye, Cities

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• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Drinking, Book

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• Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

  Edward Glaeser

  Cities, World, Static

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

  Mason Cooley

  Country, Art, Cousin

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe.

  Charles Landry

  Country, Moving, Talking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

  Joseph Straus

  Bridges, Cities, Water

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Cities

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• He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Order, Cities, Evil

  "The Final Problem" (1893)

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