Cities Quotes

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Nations die first in the big cities.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

A great city is a great solitude.

I don't like Paris or being in big cities.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

L.A. is my American city.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.