Cities Quotes

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.