Cities Quotes

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

To me, Toronto is a good party city, I think Vancouver has the best smoke, you know. And then, Montreal has the best..uh..Chinese food?

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.

The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

I'd say my style is all me, It's different from other artist even in my city or outside of my city.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.