Cities Quotes

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

~ Woody Allen

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

~ Simon Hoggart

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.

~ Harry Ruby

I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

~ Fred Allen

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

~ Anonymous

texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?

~ Anonymous

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

~ Dave Barry

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached after traveling through Japan as well as countless hours reading studying and analyzing this fascinating culture is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

~ Dave Barry

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: Yes: the little one does.

~ Mark Twain

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

~ Billy Wilder

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

~ Charles De Gaulle

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

~ Mark Twain

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

~ T. G. Appleton

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

~ David Steinberg

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.

~ Anonymous

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 Expect Luggage To Arrive.

~ 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 can shop in bed.

~ 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 cold enough.

~ Richard Jeni

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 the sunshine of the day (The Voyager)

~ Pierre Albert-Birot

...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years—so typical a place that it only looks like an exception.

~ Jerry Herron

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

~ Jack Kerouac

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

~ Jean-Christophe Valtat

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

~ Alan Bean

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

~ Daniel Libeskind