Cities Quotes · Page 77

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as…

— Achille Mbembe

I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking…

— Louis C. K

If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For…

— Martin Luther

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down…

— Livy

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

— Donald Trump

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

— Ivan Allen

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to…

— Frank Gehry

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border, they support visa overstays. They…

— Donald Trump

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days.…

— Judah Friedlander

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings…

— Tony Curtis

For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it…

— Italo Calvino

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven…

— Harold Pinter

What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly…

— Walter Karp

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written…

— Diogenes Laertius

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

— Aldous Huxley

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I…

— Roger Maris

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face…

— Ellen Goodman

This city has so many beautiful women. I fall in love like every ten minutes, I'm sitting on the subway, I'm like,…

— Jim Gaffigan

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in…

— Jeb Bush

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded…

— Charles Dickens

“I really love this city. It’s so very beautiful. It’s so multidimensional.People say it has a darkness and a decadence, which it…

— Umair Naeem

I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves…

— Douglas Coupland

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium.…

— Cassandra Peterson