Cities Quotes
I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.
It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.
The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
As a mayor, I don't make my decisions based upon whether it is a "Democrat" issue. You make your decisions based upon the people you represent as a city to move our city forward.
I think we should want all of our cities to become more compassionate places, frankly.
There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.
