City Quotes

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

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

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

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

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

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

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.