Cities Quotes · Page 52

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was…

— Ed Westwick

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

— Lenny Bruce

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

— Edgerrin James

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have…

— Hilda Doolittle

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together…

— Malcolm X

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the…

— John McCain

If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money…

— Joseph J. Romm

I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a…

— Andy Cohen

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like…

— Pedro Reyes

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance,…

— Jane Jacobs

At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you…

— Josh Schwartz

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love…

— George Dzundza

On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the…

— Victor Grignard

You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one.…

— Shannon Hale

When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know…

— Orhan Pamuk

“...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They…

— Jonah Lehrer

O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects,…

— Anonymous

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards…

— Arundhati Roy

The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now…

— Noam Chomsky

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that…

— Christopher McDougall

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

I don't want to have thousands of people shot in a city where, essentially, I'm the president.

— Donald Trump

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy…

— Natalia Kills

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

— Annie Wersching

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City…

— Stuart Pearce

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

— Janet Evanovich

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

— David Blunkett

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head…

— Bernie Taupin

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

— Sade Adu

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver…

— John Updike

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of…

— Mary Jo Putney

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

— Ronald Koeman

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

— Marquis de Lafayette

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte