Cities Quotes

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)

When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. (on being Manchester City manager)

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve closed the book.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

The city's full of people who you just see around.

With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.

Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city.

I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.