Cities Quotes
Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?
I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
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 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.
Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.
Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.
Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference in our lives here and now.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.
I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.