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American Cities Quotes

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. John Steinbeck
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
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities. Leonard Woodcock
William Gibson quote: "Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television."
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. William Gibson
I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. Jack Kerouac
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies. Tom Robbins
Wesley Morris quote: "Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right..."
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. Wesley Morris
Marc Morial quote: "A great American city is fighting for its life."
A great American city is fighting for its life. Marc Morial
Tom Ford quote: "L.A. is my American city."
L.A. is my American city. Tom Ford
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. Joseph Stiglitz
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities..."
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. P. J. O'Rourke
Ethel Waters quote: "New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big..."
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. Ethel Waters
Lee H. Hamilton quote: "China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities..."
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. Lee H. Hamilton
Studs Terkel quote: "Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most..."
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. Studs Terkel
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. Mitch Landrieu

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