Cities Quotes

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.

There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

Falsehood is never in words

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

A soulless city creates soulless people!

Cities get built out of poet's dreams.

For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.

We must live as people with great hope.

The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.

We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.

Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature.

Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Desire to dwell in clean environment.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.

Every citizen must pray for its nation.

I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.

You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.

The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.