Cities Quotes

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.