Cities Quotes · Page 45

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

— Kei Nishikori

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

— Nora Ephron

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

— Gary Hustwit

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Charlaine Harris

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

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

— Maria Dahvana Headley

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but…

— Marc Morial

I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown.…

— Darryl Dawkins

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure…

— Kevin Rudd

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one…

— Georges Pompidou

I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San…

— Steve Perry

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking…

— Jaime Lerner

Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in…

— Vladimir Putin

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director…

— Vin Diesel

Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute…

— Andrew Ryan

Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand…

— Italo Calvino

I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God,…

— Pat Robertson

Louisiana taught me another level of humility. Everyone is so content, not socially content but spiritually. Everyone is happy with who they…

— Kofi Siriboe

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar…

— Louis MacNeice

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Lea Thompson

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

— Hope Davis

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

— Bayard Taylor

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

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it…

— Mary Schmich

We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at…

— Frederick Lenz

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

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

— Norton Juster

Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup.

— David Letterman

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

— Steve Kornacki

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

— Jan Gehl

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

— Marcus Terentius Varro

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

— Robert Paul Weston

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

— Angela Carter

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

— Christopher Penczak

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the…

— Jeremy Irvine