Cities Quotes · Page 82

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

— Alan Garner

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

— Anthony Weiner

What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

— Michael Z. Williamson

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

— Jack White

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

— Margaret Mead

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

— Jesse Spencer

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary…

— Tom Vilsack

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every…

— Bayard Taylor

I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no…

— Donald Trump

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes…

— Noam Chomsky

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the…

— William Penn

I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now…

— Derek Fisher

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in…

— Spike Lee

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see…

— Lola Kirke

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the…

— Noam Chomsky

A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30…

— Margot Adler

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…

— Margaret Mead

In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have…

— Garrison Keillor

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable…

— Ginni Rometty

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with…

— Banksy

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the…

— Edward Abbey

I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season…

— Jonny Gomes

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She…

— Leonard Cohen

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

— Lea Thompson

The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

— Hope Davis

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and…

— Feist

The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to…

— David Shibley

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

— Gary Hustwit

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

— Charlaine Harris

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

— Albert Camus

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its…

— Herb Caen

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

— Nora Ephron

I grew up in Matsue, in Shimane prefecture, which is one of the smallest cities in Japan.

— Kei Nishikori

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

— Richard M. Daley

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

— Karl Pilkington

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

— Adolf Loos