San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

- Craig Venter

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

- Ernest Poole

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

- Elizabeth Banks

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

- Erin Heatherton

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

- Derek Walcott

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

- David Guterson

I love cities.

- Danny Boyle

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

- Cesar Pelli

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

- Carlo Ratti

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

- Cecil Beaton

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

- Abbas Kiarostami

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

- Cate Blanchett

I don't care much for the cities.

- Boo Weekley

I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.

- Bryan Greenberg

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

- Bill Dedman

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

- Adriano Giannini

There are many beautiful and resource-rich areas all over the Philippines that are still undeveloped or under-developed. These areas offer opportunities for better master-planning and the emergence of better communities as well as cities.

- Andrew Tan

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

- Alan Garner

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

- Alan Bean

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.

- Amy Bloom