Cities Quotes · Page 56

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

— Donald Trump

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in…

— James Ellroy

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never…

— Rem Koolhaas

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

— Graham Greene

You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

— John de Ruiter

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

— Saddam Hussein

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

— Bret Easton Ellis

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different…

— Salman Rushdie

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will…

— Marshall McLuhan

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds…

— Jennifer Granholm

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the…

— David Maraniss

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of…

— Erik Larson

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services…

— Jacque Fresco

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and…

— Dennis Hopper

I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but…

— Anonymous

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may…

— Caryll Houselander

Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one…

— Vincent Kartheiser

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the…

— Aristotle

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated…

— Samuel R. Delany

For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to…

— Donald Trump

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

— Rocky Marciano

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

— Edward Dahlberg

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be…

— Wellington Webb

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

— Robin McKinley

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

— Bob Kane

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

— Brad Pitt

The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.

— Roddy White

“God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.”

— Amit Kalantri

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

— John Guare

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

— Sylvia Pankhurst

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

— Irwin Redlener

Western Mosul is the historic heart of one of the oldest cities in the world. Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable…

— Peter Bergen

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

— Ruta Sepetys

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or…

— Sophocles

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan