City Quotes
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
John Hickenlooper
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I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and too claustrophobic and too aggressive and too scary, and too chaotic. Did I say chaotic already? I like the country. I like quiet.
Exene Cervenka
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I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.
Marcus Samuelsson
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In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.
Ken Livingstone
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Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
Andrew Keen
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
J. B. Priestley
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I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.
Margherita Missoni
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I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
Aja Brown
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I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.
Pep Guardiola
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I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
Lil Uzi Vert
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade
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I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.
Eduardo Paes
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
Antony Gormley
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I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
Eli Broad
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I'd listened to my colleagues in the teachers' lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better. They just didn't have the resources. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city.
Charles Best
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I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time.
John Roger Stephens
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The world is yet in its infancy; the gracious designs of God are yet hardly developed. Glorious things are spoken of Zion, the city of our God. She is yet to triumph and become the joy and glory of the whole earth.
Adoniram Judson
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
Boris Johnson
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong
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It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
Geoffrey West
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If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.
Maria Schell
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There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.
Cyrille Aimee