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Greatest City Quotes
Civic pride in a single line.
Calling a place the greatest city is less about size and more about meaning, as these quotes show, from New York's mayoral politics to growing up just outside a major metropolis. Speakers praise their cities for character as much as scale. For more on connection to place, see our Belonging quotes.
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- Greatest Man
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- Government
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
- Experience
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
- Experience
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All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
- Eminent
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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