Cities Quotes · Page 119

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

— Diane Lane

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face…

— William E. Gladstone

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see…

— Jimmy Cliff

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with…

— John Cheever

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you…

— Hanif Kureishi

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city

— Maxine Waters

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st…

— Thomas Friedman

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,…

— Walt Whitman

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've…

— Ville Valo

Don't get me wrong, I think "Portlandia" is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where…

— Johnny Marr

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

“Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve ”

— Charles Baudelaire

Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally...…

— David Krieger

We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time,…

— Biz Stone

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

— Peter Jurasik

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

— Michael Portillo

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to…

— Robert De Niro

If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the…

— Tom Lehrer

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

— Toni Morrison

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple…

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Terry Jones

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

— Nikita Khrushchev

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

— Anton Chekhov

All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out…

— Charles Landry

“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the…

— Pierre Albert-Birot

In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more…

— Malalai Joya

I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However,…

— Kim Coles

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in…

— Woodrow Wilson

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just…

— Zach Braff

I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have…

— Aaron Feuerstein

Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be…

— Fernando Pessoa

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something…

— Cleveland Abbe

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 think it's ridiculous. I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there's a lot of problems. If we have…

— Donald Trump

In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.

— Om Malik

The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government,…

— Gerald Epstein

I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do…

— Barack Obama