Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Great City Quotes from famous authors such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Billy Corgan, Diana DeGarmo, Bitsie Tulloch, Greg Oden. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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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.
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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.
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Snellville is a great city. It’s a great place to grow up and live. I love it. It’s very full of southern charm and wonderful people. And they’ve supported me greatly throughout all of my endeavors.
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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.
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For starters, Portland isn’t a great city to live in if you’re a young, African American male with a lot of money. But that’s especially true if you don’t have anybody to guide you.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Glasgow is a great city.
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I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.
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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.
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One great building does not make a great city.
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Mumbai has so much to offer, but the pathetic spectacle of horse abuse is the first thing that many tourists see, and it taints their impression of our great city.
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New Orleans is New Orleans. It’s a great city and fun and great food. It’s one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.
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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.
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It’s an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I’m also immensely grateful for the support I’ve received from Ireland.
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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.
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Even for myself, Ive been lucky enough to walk around Glasgow with my family and you see all the different nationalities and different establishments – whether thats restaurants, businesses – and its obvious that people have come from all over the world to make this city a great city.
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I think Chicago’s a great city. Like New York, it’s full of energy.
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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.
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Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it’s not about my other business. It’s about bringing the notoriety to a great city.
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Munich is a great city. I have lived in many cities in Europe, but I have never felt this comfortable, and my wife and children love it as well.
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Cleveland’s a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They’re loyal and hard-working, and they’re loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.
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Certainly, getting involved in politics and being a part of the solution to creating a great city, the opposite of what we had in Cuba, was a big part of our identity.
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I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.
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Brooklyn, it’s a great town, a great city. It’s New York.
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I like culture. So D.C. is a great city for me.
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Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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There’s a lot of haters in Philly, but it’s a lot of people that give you support – but way more haters. It’s definitely a great city to be from. But it’s not really a lot of people that come out of there. So when you, like, make it out of Philadelphia, everywhere else is easy.
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Let’s decide that we must live in a safe city where we educate our children and make sure everyone has an opportunity to prosper in this great city.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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New Orleans is a great city. My favorite part is the music. I love being to walk on the street and dance with strangers. It’s really fun.
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Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they’re in the race. They want to win here, and that’s what I want to do.
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We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
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Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I have made here.
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Munich is a great city and everybody is treating me very well.
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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!
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I won’t be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city.
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It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn’t being spread to all our neighborhoods.
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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.
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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.
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It’s such a great city, visually. You can’t get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can’t get that elsewhere. It’s a very unique place in that way.
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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.
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Chicago’s a great city for filming. The city is so rich architecturally. I think that’s part of what made ‘Candyman’ special.
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If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you’re going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.
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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.
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Orlando is a great city to raise a family because they have great schools and there are a lot of great people around here that I have met.
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I seriously love Cleveland. It’s a great city.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago is a great city.
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I love Atlanta. It’s a great city with great crews there, but it’s really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn’t look at all like Las Vegas.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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I love Liverpool – it’s a great city to live in.
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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.
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From a planning perspective, I thought Compton was phenomenal. It has a huge potential to be a great city, and I always bet on the underdog.