Cities Quotes · Page 47

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

— Nicolas Cage

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

— Italo Calvino

They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a…

— Keith Wheeler

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

— Michael Sucsy

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be…

— Alan Autry

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York…

— Donald Trump

I've spent a lot of time in Montreal, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.

— Bonobo

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

— Alex Ferguson

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant…

— Baz Luhrmann

After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays,…

— George Orwell

I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his…

— Bill de Blasio

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in…

— Grace Paley

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory…

— will.i.am

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all…

— Susan Oliver

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy…

— Gianni Agnelli

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…

— Lily Yeh

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one…

— Albert Camus

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.…

— Mark Twain

I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't…

— Tony Hale

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…

— Naomi Wallace

The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures…

— Macarius of Egypt

Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it…

— Frederic Farrar

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

— Le Corbusier

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

— Dario Argento

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate,…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men…

— Miuccia Prada

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

— Paulo Coelho

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

— Victor Cruz

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

— Jacque Fresco

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

— Sinclair Lewis

And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth…

— Jerry Coleman

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

— Chris Noth

I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.

— Wyclef Jean

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

— Stuart Pearce

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

— Tom Piazza

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

— Jane Byrne

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.

— Hank Williams, Jr