Cities Quotes

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

Manchester's got everything except a beach.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

The City that knows how.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired?

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.