Cities Quotes · Page 8

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

— Lewis Mumford

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

— V. S. Naipaul

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

— Trace Adkins

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

— Baran Odar

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

— David Byrne

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

— Vikas Swarup

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

— Steve Clevenger

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

— Rashida Jones

Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked…

— Julie James

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

— Clinton Smith

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

— Thomas Heywood

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

— Demi Lovato

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

— Ansel Elgort

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

— Andy Warhol

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

— Jack Canfield

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells,…

— Olivia Thirlby

People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of…

— Alice Schwarzer

None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is…

— Edmund Crispin

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at…

— Louis Yako

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in…

— David Rakoff

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is…

— Richard Louv

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city…

— Jason Bateman

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy…

— David Letterman

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides…

— William Vickrey

I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not…

— William Bill

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest…

— Plutarch

Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the…

— Bill Smith

Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos,…

— Darren Daulton

“He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of…

— Jack Kerouac

The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use…

— Rush Limbaugh

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

— Frank Hague

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

— William Gibson

I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.

— Wolfgang Puck

I'm more on the country side than big cities.

— Marc Gasol

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

— Anonymous

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

— Barbara Corcoran

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

— Anonymous

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

— Oksana Baiul