City Quotes
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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.
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We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques.
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I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe - I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides - nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.
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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.
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Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
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The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through.
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A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
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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.
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I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
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Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.
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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
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Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
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When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.
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Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.
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I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
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It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
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If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.
