The City Quotes

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

Berlin is my favourite city.

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

What you don't know about women is alot.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.