City Quotes

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.