Cities Quotes

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".

It's amazing, especially coming from the small city of Paterson, to have all of those people just being behind you and supporting your career and understanding where you come from.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area, [I feel] connected with nature and unimportant in a postitive way.

In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

New York is my favorite city.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

I like doing business in a black city.