If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
Dennis Miller
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Andy Warhol
If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
J. B. Phillips
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.
Groucho Marx
When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris
When you leave New York, you ain’t goin’ nowhere.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.
Charles Abrams
New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.
David Letterman
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Herbert Prochnow
If you would know and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.
John Fleischman
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
Philip G. Hamerton
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
Gary Washburn
Seven cities warr’d for Homer being dead,Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
Thomas Heywood
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Bible
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Oliver Goldsmith
I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
Pierre Charron
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Lewis Mumford
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
In Rome you long for the country; in the country – oh inconstant! – you praise the distant city to the stars.
Horace
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
Bible
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Fran Lebowitz
A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.
Charles Abrams
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Aristotle
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
Pete Seeger
A rose-red city half as old as Time.
Dean John William Burgon
A great city whose image dwells on the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; faith hovers over Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world-art.
Benjamin Disraeli
Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
Euripides
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
William Hazlitt (1)
Even cities have their graves!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Theodore Parker