Cities Quotes

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

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.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

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

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.

I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and they'll clean it up a bit.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

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

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

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

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.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.