Cities Quotes · Page 43

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly…

— Dee Dee Ramone

“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I…

— Anna Quindlen

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock…

— John Cassian

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women…

— Judd Apatow

Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one…

— Walter Benjamin

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

— Yakov Smirnoff

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never…

— Piper Perabo

The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled…

— Kevin Powers

'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.

— Ilana Glazer

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has…

— Bill Cosby

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say,…

— Jaime King

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

— Rudy Giuliani

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my…

— John Green

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

— Enrique Peñalosa Londoño

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their…

— Martin Cruz Smith

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a…

— John Green

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

— Jan Morris

My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also…

— Lupe Fiasco

His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't…

— Jeri Ryan

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars…

— Mick Cornett