Cities Quotes

You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

New York is a fantastic city.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.

Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

I feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!