Cities Quotes

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

London; a nation, not a city.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.