Cities Quotes

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.

Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We're really lucky

I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.

I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

Cities are platforms for sharing.

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.