Cities Quote by David Dinkins Download Open image “The people really are what make New York City great.” — David Dinkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities New york New york city People York City
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis. — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere. — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
Every politician says New York is the greatest city on the globe. But what good is that if no one can afford to live… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
People are more up front about what they want. That's what I love about New York in general. — EJ Johnson Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places! — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise,… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
