City Quotes

• Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

  

  Bryan Q. Miller
  • City

• 'Intrigue: Murder In The Lucky Holiday Hotel' is a podcast put together by the BBC's Carrie Gracie that investigates the story behind the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Together
  • Death
  • Chinese

• I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Life
  • Good
  • Friends

• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Men
  • Live
  • House

• There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Country
  • City

• At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

  

  Lloyd Dorfman
  • School
  • City
  • Sports

• It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Interesting

• Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Night

• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • City
  • Morning

• There's milk-and-cookies Grandma, and there's Colt 45 and Atlantic City Grandma. She was the latter.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • She
  • City
  • Grandma

• Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Country
  • City

• The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • World
  • Culture
  • Dying

• I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

  

  John Liu
  • People
  • High
  • City

• We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • Black
  • City
  • Color

• A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Women
  • City
  • Financial

• Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Trying
  • City

• On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Money
  • Sex
  • Shoes

• Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Up
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Universe

• The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • City

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