Top 55 Great City Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Great City Quotes from famous people such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tim Wakefield, Mohamed Bamba, Lori Lightfoot, Willian, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in th

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
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
Chicago is a great city.
Mohamed Bamba
Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn’t being spread to all our neighborhoods.
Lori Lightfoot
For me the Premier League is the best league in the world. And London is a great city. My family love to live here.
Willian
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.
Arjen Robben
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?
Pat Buchanan
Dallas is a great city, and it’s worth fighting for.
Laura Miller
Glasgow is a great city.
Nicola Sturgeon
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
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
I, Mayor Ford… encourage the people of Toronto to send a strong message to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited and transsexual community, like all the communities, are welcomed, safe and valued in this great city we call Toronto.
Rob Ford
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.
Baran bo Odar
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
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.
Zeenat Aman
Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it’s not about my other business. It’s about bringing the notoriety to a great city.
Pat Connaughton
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
I love Liverpool – it’s a great city to live in.
Roberto Firmino
I seriously love Cleveland. It’s a great city.
Brendon Urie
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
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.
Greg Oden
Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.
Al Horford
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.
Walter O’Brien
It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.
Jarome Iginla
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
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
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.
Nikola Vucevic
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.
Cass Sunstein
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
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
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
I won't be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of

I won’t be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city.
Eric Garcetti
L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
Eric Garcetti
I think Chicago’s a great city. Like New York, it’s full of energy.
Lidia Bastianich
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
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.
C. V. Raman
San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.
Larry Gagosian
I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.
Ben Howland
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.
Lil Uzi Vert
New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It’s such a diverse city. I’ve walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that’s beautiful.
Patti Smith
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.
Aja Brown
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.
Drew Pomeranz
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.
Francis X. Suarez
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.
Eric Adams
I like culture. So D.C. is a great city for me.
Ricky Rubio
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
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
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
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
Munich is a great city and everybody is treating me very well.
Douglas Costa
Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I’ve seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.
Jerry Reinsdorf
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.
Eli Broad
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.
Andrei Arlovski
Melbourne is a great city and one of the favorites place on tour for many players.
Kiki Bertens
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman