Cities Quotes · Page 89

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

— Geoffrey Zakarian

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what…

— Chris Harrison

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

— Steve Yzerman

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

— Will Rogers

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

— Doug Larson

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

— Virginia Postrel

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.

— Jim McKelvey

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I…

— Jerry Garcia

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back…

— Mickey Rourke

The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a…

— Dwight Howard

I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their…

— Frederick Lenz

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a…

— Jonathan Kozol

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming…

— Martin Scorsese

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear…

— Anton Chekhov

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament…

— John Bright

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls…

— Lucian

When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of…

— Estwick Evans

In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies…

— Keith Bradsher

In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic…

— Hillary Clinton

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand…

— Frederic Farrar

I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something…

— Rostam Batmanglij

There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

— O. Henry

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

— Mark Helprin

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

— Lev Yashin

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to…

— Chris Paul

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the…

— Anonymous

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

— John Kennedy Toole

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While…

— Sting

Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.

— G-Eazy

“Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve ”

— Charles Baudelaire

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

— Jane Jacobs

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

— Tony Visconti

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

— JoBeth Williams