Cities Quotes

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers