City Quotes · Page 60

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

— Jane Jacobs

“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

— Claes Oldenburg

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

— Gavin Newsom

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

— Caitlin Stasey

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you…

— Emily Thornberry

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

— Santiago Calatrava

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

— Colman Domingo

I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were…

— Kay Kay Menon

I was always included - I mean, I loved being downtown at Max's Kansas City and CBGB's and all that, but you…

— Bebe Buell

Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as…

— Roma Downey

I can remember how I felt the first time I was knocked out by Floyd Mayweather Jr. My first fight afterwards was…

— Ricky Hatton

“The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off…

— Markus Zusak

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade…

— Gerard Malanga

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's…

— Cord Jefferson

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University.…

— Brad D. Smith

“The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the…

— Andrew Holleran

Hydrogen peroxide-based bombs were used in the London bombings in 2005; in al Qaeda's foiled plot to attack subways in New York…

— Peter Bergen

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and…

— Diego Klattenhoff

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a…

— Geraldine Brooks

We're convinced that Frisco Square is the perfect environment for Gearbox Software's new headquarters and we are eager to break ground, build…

— Randy Pitchford

In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice,…

— Ehud Barak

“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of…

— Tom McDonough

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow…

— Tony Parsons

I think the thing that stands out for me is that in the WWE, we were in a new city every night.

— Eva Marie

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

— Claudio Ranieri

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

— John Rzeznik

“Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

— Samantha Shannon

Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city And all you're ever gonna be is mean

— Taylor Swift

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

— Leon Krier

If we truly are the greatest city in the greatest country on Earth, we cannot fail those facing the greatest need.

— Eric Adams

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

— Eileen Myles

I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.

— Alexandre Lacazette

I am humbled and truly honored to be the recipient of The Key to the City and my own day by the…

— Raheem DeVaughn

While performing for the WWE, Jacksonville was my favorite city to go to.

— Kelly Kelly

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

— Mario Botta

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

— Erik Larson

Glasgow was a tough city. You were adored, and you were hated.

— Craig Bellamy