City Quotes · Page 36

I grew up in Texas City, which sounds like a fake city from a TV show.

— Edi Patterson

I want to play for City in big games and I want to play for England.

— Phil Foden

I spent four years at Manchester City and won three trophies. It was a big wrench to leave.

— Toni Duggan

I grew up in the West Village and went to the New York City Lab School for junior high.

— Morena Baccarin

I'm the manager of Cardiff City Football Club, and I'm not to lay down and feel sorry for myself.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

— Tim Henman

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

— Michael J. Knowles

The state does not run the water system in the city of Jackson. Perhaps we should.

— Tate Reeves

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city,…

— Norman Davies

I was fairly young when we moved to Santa Fe, but it wasn't long after that I started to figure out who…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop -…

— Lou Barletta

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers…

— Amin Maalouf

I feel like Chicago it's so different, we have a different story to tell, we are seeing these things happen in this…

— Polo G

I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance…

— Ben Feldman

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is…

— Letitia James

The first time I tried surfing, we went out in front of Cement City and I just remember falling in love. It…

— Garrett McNamara

“For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are whithered before…

— George W. Sears Nessmuk

Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact,…

— Bram Stoker

“Maybe to save money, many people do not paint the outer walls of the private and public buildings. The city will appear…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried…

— Gary Lineker

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would…

— Stan Lee

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…

— Jane Jacobs

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the…

— Tom Perez

When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in…

— Richard Engel

I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.

— Ben Howland

To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.

— Javier Zanetti

I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

— John Liu

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”

— George Ade

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

For so many people in New York City, childcare and eldercare is a top-three cost of living.

— Maya Wiley

I am happy that Delhi is now catching up fast on the nightlife circuit. The city has a rocking night life.

— Rahul Dev

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

— Henry L. Stimson

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

— Desmond Morris

“The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

— John Hickenlooper

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

— William H. Whyte

“She finds it funny now. To see the city below her, the city she knows and the city that knows her.”

— C.J. Calamari

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

— John Burroughs

Economically, the business development of the greater Hyderabad region has made the city integral to the state.

— Sanjaya Baru

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on…

— Boris Johnson