Cities Quotes · Page 78

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

— Graeme Souness

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

— Solomon

Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make…

— Rachel Cohn

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

— Anonymous

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

— Ken Schoolland

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great…

— Rory Bremner

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money,

— Greg Oden

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

— John Boyega

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If…

— Jan Morris

It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them…

— Donald Trump

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and…

— Tibor Fischer

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there…

— Jean de la Bruyere

And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I…

— Suzanne Collins

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like…

— Thomas Frank

I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I…

— LeBron James

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled…

— Rick Riordan

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished…

— Anonymous

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

This [Barack Obama] administration has failed America's inner cities. Remember, it has failed America's inner cities. It's failed them on education. It's…

— Donald Trump

At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the…

— Freedy Johnston

I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life…

— Greg Peterson

“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't…

— David Byrne

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me…

— Julie McNiven

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

— Scott Westerfeld

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a…

— Joe Lhota

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see…

— Olga Kurylenko

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,

— Colson Whitehead

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

— Alex Rodriguez

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my…

— Adelaide Clemens

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

— Nancy Pickard

I was able to explore the different cities I was in by running, so it just became my main form of exercise.

— Andi Dorfman

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon…

— Russell Kirk

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

— Donna Leon

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.

— Sonam Wangchuk

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up…

— Denise Levertov

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

— Karl Kraus