Cities Quotes

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.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City manager)

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 have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager)

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.

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

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

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

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.

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.

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

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

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

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

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it!

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.