Cities Quotes

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I love driving in the city at night.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.