Cities Quotes

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.

Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.

We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!