City Quotes

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

We must be willing to courageously invest in our city.

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

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

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.