Cities quotes

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◆ Big cities and bright lights. Sleep all day; long nights.

- Rihanna100

◆ Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

- Dan Rather99

◆ There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure

- Ross MacDonald99

◆ Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

- Dennis Miller99

◆ A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise

- Mark Helprin99

◆ If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

- J B Phillips99

◆ When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

- Ben Hecht99

◆ I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

- Oprah Winfrey99

◆ And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

- Pablo Neruda99

◆ San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

- Cecil Beaton99

◆ Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

- Alan Bean99

◆ Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

- Daniel Akaka99

◆ I don't think we're in Kansas anymore

- Horace99