Cities Quotes

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

New York City is my playground.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.