Cities Quotes · Page 64

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

— Sunidhi Chauhan

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful…

— Janet Varney

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

— Arthur Frommer

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

— Salman Rushdie

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

— Anurag Thakur

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real…

— Sam Zell

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning…

— Ryan Tedder

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the…

— Anna Kendrick

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat…

— Abraham Cowley

I'm a bit sad because I'm leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for…

— Neymar

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast…

— Oliver Evans

In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far…

— Raymond Burr

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt…

— Hayley Wickenheiser

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes…

— Josephine Baker

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the…

— Peter Gabriel

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated…

— Wally Lamb

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of…

— Winston Churchill

Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or…

— Joan Littlewood

Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

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

— Elie Wiesel

I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's…

— Vladimir Putin

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot…

— Neil Gaiman

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

— Jeet Thayil

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents;…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

— Anne Mallory

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on…

— Woody Allen

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more…

— Rachel Hartman

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

— Britt Ekland

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who…

— Ray Nagin

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as…

— Larry Hagman

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

— Phife Dawg

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

— Donald Trump

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

— Anonymous

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

— Kenneth Tynan

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except…

— Storm Jameson

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

— Greg Lake