Cities Quotes · Page 40

Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)

— Claudio Reyna

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

— Michael Nutter

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

— Vince Cable

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

— James Patterson

Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help…

— Donald Trump

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

— Gianfranco Ferre

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up…

— Bob Cousy

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the…

— Sarah Vowell

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style…

— Mariella Frostrup

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym,…

— Laurie David

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off…

— Denzel Whitaker

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going…

— Andrew Natsios

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and…

— Anonymous

We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot…

— Lisa Randall

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…

— Tycho Brahe

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,…

— H. G. Wells

He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward…

— Matthew J. Kirby

King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that…

— Diodorus Siculus

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land…

— Joel Salatin

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a…

— Michael Cunningham

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

— Charles Fourier

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries…

— Mark Walport

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

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

— Brian Selznick

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

— Salman Rushdie

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

— Ai Weiwei

Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

— Ouida

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

— Anatoly Chubais

Out on Tour, it's a lot of big cities, and when you're on the course it can be like a circus.

— Viktor Hovland

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every…

— Stuart Pearce

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

— Mike Myers

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

— Charles C. Mann

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

— Lauren Kate

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

— Mark Cuban

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

— Takashi Murakami

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in…

— Hayley Atwell