Cities Quotes

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.