86 City Hall Quotes
Following is our list of city hall quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about city government.
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Famous City Hall Quotes
The City that knows how. — William Howard Taft
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. — Robert Moses
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. — Mike Royko
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. — Doug Larson
People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity. — Jack White
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. — Robert Moses
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. — Thomas Menino
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination. — Laura Miller
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs
The higher the building the lower the morals. — Noel Coward
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. — Rachel Field
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky
Short City Hall Quotes
- A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early. — Jan Gehl
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman
- Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. — Robert Lowell
- The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris
- This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. — Plato
- The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes
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City Council Quotes
If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else. — Samuel L. Jackson
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. — Jello Biafra
In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret. — Fannie Lou Hamer
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. — Florence Ellinwood Allen
People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up. — Ralph Nader
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot
According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city. — Star Parker
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. — Tom Hayden
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering. — Harold H. Greene
City Government Quotes
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason — Hugo Grotius
God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country. — Jacob Zuma
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system. — Eugene Ionesco
There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame. — Zack de la Rocha
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls. — John Quincy Adams
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program. — Howard Schultz
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. — Aristotle
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. — Harold Washington
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government. — Pietro Badoglio
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people. — Jane Swisshelm
People Writing About City Hall
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Robert Moses |
15 | 392 |
 Desmond Morris |
32 | 533 |
 William Howard Taft |
124 | 1425 |
 Mike Royko |
30 | 650 |
 Doug Larson |
68 | 1504 |
 Jack White |
189 | 914 |
More City Hall Quotes
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone. — Julian Bond
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! — Mother Jones
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life. — Count Basie
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
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. — Vanessa Carlton
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light. — Woody Allen
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. — Laura Miller
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. — Laura Miller
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman. — George Edward Woodberry
Never take an elevator in city hall. — Harvey Milk
I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period. — Sayings
Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise; Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store. — John Updike
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. — Zubin Mehta
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. — Sam Donaldson
When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park. — John Towner Williams
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them. — Vicki Baum
Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. — Steve Chabot
I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. — Paul Gray
You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up. — George Carlin
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. — Ayn Rand
Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology. — Annalee Newitz
Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must! — Derek R. Audette
Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall. — Jane Kramer
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. — Carl Stokes
I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall. — Dave Foley
You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA. — Ann Robinson
And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill. — Laura Miller
From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives. — Laura Miller
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? — Laura Miller
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. — Laura Miller
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. — Laura Miller
It is hard, as you get older finding good scripts, which is why I was thrilled to get Deck the Halls. But I do have a blessed life. I am blessed to have had a rich, wonderful creative success with Sex and the City, most people don't ever have that and I feel fulfilled in that way and so proud, so anything else that comes along is icing on the cake. — Kristin Davis
Sweden is a small country. All cities seem small after a while. I was hanging out at a rehearsal hall in Williamsburg and I don't know how many people I ran into just being there for a couple days. Music makes all cities smaller. — Anna Ternheim
Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such an absolute chronic lack of culture, and institutions that are supposed to make people think? Like theatres, archives, grand libraries, concert halls, art cinemas, progressive bookstores... There is nothing here. — Andre Vltchek
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers. — Ai Weiwei
It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?" — Van Jones
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a fundamental shift away from dirty fossil fuels that spew carbon pollution. To make that happen, we need to put pressure on our leaders to take the bold actions necessary to move us off dirty sources of energy. — Al Gore
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me. — Ben Hecht
Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is that activities should not just be limited to the building, but that the concert hall should symbolize a general mood of creative rejuvenation. — Charles Landry
You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name. — Jack Kerouac
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall. — Bryn Terfel
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever. — Christina Stead
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