| "The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer |
| "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus |
| "It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal |
| "Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine |
| "To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew |
| "The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos |
| "If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle |
| "It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx |
| "Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod |
| "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow |
| "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels |
| "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain |
| "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." »Doug Larson |
| "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda |
| "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns |
| "The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York city. The scalpel of the law is making us well again." »Edward Irving Koch |
| "On the road from the city of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith |
| "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg |
| "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." »Epicurus |
| "With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see." »Ronald Reagan |
| "If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity." »Alcaeus |
| "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." »Alan Alda |
| "Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." »Golda Meir |
| "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." »Carl Sagan |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |