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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different. -- Cate Blanchett
The critics don't build great cities -- Federico Pena
It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities. -- Hilda Doolittle
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. -- Jane Austen
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different -- Cate Blanchett
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. -- Mason Cooley
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. -- Rory Bremner
There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions. -- Jim Courier
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. -- Thomas Jefferson
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls. -- Conrad Aiken
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default. -- Chris Rose
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. -- Godfried Danneels
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key. -- Richard M. Daley
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East. -- John Gregory Dunne
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. -- Jim Evans
In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left. -- Friedrich Engels
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas. -- Daniel Libeskind
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach. -- Chelsea Cain
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places. -- Teju Cole
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery. -- Thomas Jefferson
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges. -- Henry George
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class. -- William Butler Yeats
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. -- George R. R. Martin
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. -- John Bright
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice. -- Thomas Jefferson
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations? -- Colin Powell
Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe. -- Charles Landry
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. -- Rose George
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. -- James Buchan
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation. -- Kehinde Wiley
Glasgow is a great city. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city. -- Brendon Urie
One great building does not make a great city. -- Thomas Heatherwick
A great American city is fighting for its life. -- Marc Morial
Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. -- Barbara Hershey
The people really are what make New York City great. -- David Dinkins
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for. -- Laura Miller
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. -- Robert Gottlieb
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums. -- Julie Gonzalo
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. -- Patrick Ewing
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. -- Aristotle
L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating. -- Kim Yuna
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. -- Kenzo Tange
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. -- Eli Broad
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. -- Geoffrey West
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city. -- Magic Johnson
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. -- Thomas Seward
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them. -- Edward Glaeser
Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot. -- Taylor Lautner
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. -- Cleopatra
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. -- Joseph J. Romm
That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style. -- Chris Paul
Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities. -- Rila Fukushima
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness. -- Paul Theroux
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad. -- Donald Trump
For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly. -- Herodotus
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret. -- Antony Gormley

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