Cities Quotes

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I live in too many cities.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.