City Quotes

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

I love New York City.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Nature is a petrified magic city.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

New York is a fantastic city.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

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

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I like to go out and see what a city's all about.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.