Cities Quotes · Page 76

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come…

— Jane Jacobs

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious…

— Henry David Thoreau

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to…

— Rupert Friend

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

— Iris Chang

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the…

— Weegee

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

— Pee Wee Reese

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much…

— Bernie Mac

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the…

— Liv Ullmann

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised…

— Robert Fisk

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When…

— Susan Orlean

When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up…

— Jonathan Raban

In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll…

— Anonymous

Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin,…

— Louis MacNeice

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when…

— Ryne Sandberg

Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our…

— Donald Trump

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a…

— Nikita Khrushchev

little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for…

— Charles Bukowski

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the…

— Robinson Jeffers

I was living in New York, so I just rode my motorcycle up to the set [of New Jack City]. So first…

— Judd Nelson

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little…

— Anna Gunn

I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When…

— William Shatner

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

— Fred Allen

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

— Walt Whitman

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

— Jack Kenny

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

— Juan Williams

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

— Ruben Blades

We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be…

— David Berg

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

— David Letterman

I don't know much about cities. When I go places, I usually stay in the country.

— Terry O'Quinn

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city,…

— Ai Weiwei

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

— Trey Songz

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

— Toby Jones

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and…

— Penelope Keith

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

— George Clooney