Cities Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Blame the city I'm a product of it

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

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

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

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.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

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

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

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

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

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

On cable TV, they have a weather channel

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.