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One great building does not make a great city. -- Thomas Heatherwick
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for. -- Laura Miller
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
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. -- Walt Whitman
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
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. -- Laurence Olivier
Glasgow is a great city. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city. -- Brendon Urie
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. -- Eli Broad
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. -- Walt Whitman
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams. -- Thomas Menino
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back. -- Richard M. Daley
We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families. -- Carolyn Maloney
I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. -- Richard M. Nixon
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work. -- Malcolm Mclaren
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there. -- Sanjay Dutt
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field. -- Billy Corgan
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. -- Seth Low
I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here. -- George Dzundza
I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely! -- Ioan Gruffudd
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. -- Dave Winfield
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed. -- Neil MacGregor
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful. -- Leonard Nimoy
Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it's one of the highlights that I'll remember for a long time. -- Tim Wakefield
Minnesota's a great city. -- Ray Allen
A great city is a great solitude. -- Hermione Gingold
I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there. -- Baran Odar
The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created. -- Lewis Mumford
I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it. -- Judd Nelson
No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking. -- Allan Jacobs
Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in. -- Shakira
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? -- P. G. Wodehouse
Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end. -- Charles Hanson Towne
A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. -- Yi-Fu Tuan
Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you. -- Jonah
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. -- Jonah
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. -- Epictetus
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. -- Joseph Straus
Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. -- Charles Roven
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, -- Greg Oden
L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people. -- Tahmoh Penikett
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend. -- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. -- Charles Baudelaire
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. -- Rebecca Solnit
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. -- Rory Bremner
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here. -- Tom Cruise
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series. -- Dave Winfield
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. -- Aldous Huxley
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step. -- Kenneth Branagh
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win! -- Vladimir Putin
Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this. -- Joey McIntyre
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. -- P. D. James
Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100. -- Bitsie Tulloch
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else -- it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York. -- Will Arnett
If we're going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere. -- Enrique Penalosa
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back. -- Giacomo Casanova
I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread. -- Donald Trump
When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning. -- Paulo Coelho
Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins. -- David Maraniss
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims -- Eric Wolf
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. -- Winston Churchill
After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan. -- Kristin Chenoweth
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it. -- Dawn Powell
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in. -- Colin Hanks
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties. -- Billy Graham
So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets -- Oscar Wilde
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself. -- MC Serch
I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there. -- Michael Trucco
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams. -- Laura Miller
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out. -- Salman Rushdie
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out." -- Salman Rushdie
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality. -- Tom Peters
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed. -- Ilka Chase
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. -- Michel De Certeau
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful -- Leonard Nimoy
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. -- Rebecca Solnit
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world. -- Dorothy Day
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever. -- Jason Epstein
As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that this great city (Brussels), which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title. -- Joe Biden
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A great American city is fighting for its life. -- Marc Morial
Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. -- Barbara Hershey
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
L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating. -- Kim Yuna
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. -- Geoffrey West
I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city. -- Sarah McLachlan
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
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis. -- Baz Luhrmann
... the great white city of brotherhood, Washington ... -- Christina Stead
The people really are what make New York City great. -- David Dinkins
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town. -- Sidney Crosby
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I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. -- Themistocles
As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. -- Frank Hague
I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there. -- Steve Purdy
I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. -- Peter Sagal
The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else. -- John Cleese
Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city. -- Michael Sucsy
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home. -- Glenway Wescott
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches. -- Timothy Keller
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. -- Carlos Tevez
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work. -- Jemaine Clement
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.' -- Jack Reynor

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