Cities Quotes

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

I don't go on tour tours, I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

God! I loove this city!

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.

Biking is a good alternative. Use the city as your gym.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.