Cities Quotes

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.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.

I love driving in the city at night.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!