Cities Quotes · Page 66

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

— Jerry Della Femina

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating…

— Charles Stanley

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

— Derrek Lee

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life…

— Jane Jacobs

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no…

— Patricia Marx

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

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

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

— Laurie David

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

There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great…

— David Maraniss

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place…

— Rebecca Solnit

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long…

— Ray Nagin

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York…

— Malcolm X

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part…

— Barry Levinson

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we…

— Philippe Falardeau

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations…

— Charles Handy

Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built…

— Walker Evans

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can…

— Rose George

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan…

— Charles Lever

And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu…

— Suketu Mehta

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted…

— Julie Christie

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

— John Guare

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

— Willie Stargell

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

— Adolf Hitler

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty...

— Terry Jones

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

— John Norquist

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

— Nan Goldin

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of…

— Anton Chekhov

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

— David Letterman

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

— Mark Wahlberg

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having…

— Martha Gellhorn

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses…

— Laozi

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

— Lucy Powell

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

— Martin O'Malley