Cities Quotes

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?" Magnus to Alec

L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.