American City Quotes

The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

Chicago is an amazing place for sports.

I love Chicago.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

New York is a weird place.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

I'm from California, and still live in LA.

I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

L.A. is my American city.

I love Asbury Park. It's like the Liverpool of America.

I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.

I like Detroit.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

I love Las Vegas in a way separate from my love of any other American city. For me, growing up, it was a town of many firsts and where I enjoy a level of anonymity.

I was born and raised in Detroit.