Cities Quotes

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

City wits, country humorists.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.

Every city is a living body.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

When the movie get out and people see it. It's not just our neighborhoods that's going through the gangs and going through all type of turmoil; it's other cities and other states and other towns.