City Quotes

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

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

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

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.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

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.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.