Cities Quotes · Page 43

I don't want to have thousands of people shot in a city where, essentially, I'm the president.

— Donald Trump

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head…

— Bernie Taupin

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

— David Blunkett

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. (on being Manchester City…

— Stuart Pearce

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

— Janet Evanovich

Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions…

— Andrew Breitbart

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to…

— Shelley Berkley

... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was…

— Jacob Zuma

Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in…

— Fran Lebowitz

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of…

— Arthur Koestler

I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests,…

— Yitzhak Rabin

The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people…

— Shannon Hale

I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city…

— Marguerite Duras

The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

— Charles Dickens

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the…

— John Guare

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have…

— Anonymous

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean…

— Rick Steves

One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would…

— Danny Barker

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Tom Vilsack

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

— Jesse Spencer

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

— Michael Z. Williamson

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

— Anthony Weiner

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

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

— Cassandra Clare

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete…

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Alan Garner

I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a…

— Kate DeAraugo

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

— Salman Rushdie

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters…

— Democritus

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

— David Lynch

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the…

— Tom Hiddleston

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the…

— Joe Lhota