Cities Quotes

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

I love Toronto, It's the best city.

The city has a face, the country a soul.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

New York City has the most beautiful women.

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.