Cities Quotes

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.

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

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.

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

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.

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 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.

Even cities have their graves!

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

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

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.

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

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.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

Blame the city I'm a product of it

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.