Cities Quotes

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

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.

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.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

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.

You will never see players from City surround the referee.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.

At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Even cities have their graves!

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.