Cities Quotes · Page 70

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

— William H. Whyte

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

— Wes Moore

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

— Jane Jacobs

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food.

— Joe Bastianich

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in…

— Queen Latifah

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text…

— Jane Levy

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of…

— Brian Posehn

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of…

— Jeff Greenfield

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than…

— Terry Bradshaw

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making…

— Chico Hamilton

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in…

— Anonymous

Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to…

— Brian Sandoval

“In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock along the walls. "Man blessed…

— Italo Calvino

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it…

— Mark Twain

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

— Plato

I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Italo Calvino

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by…

— Doris Lessing

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her…

— Allen Tate

Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.

— David Letterman

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

— Golda Meir

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would…

— Drake

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut…

— Charles Bukowski

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

— Erik Larson

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New…

— Christine Quinn

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

— Michael Bloomberg

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't…

— Maggie Q

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

— Greg Rutherford

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

— Louis Garrel

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

— Robert Klein

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

— Laura Marling