City Quotes
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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
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Jaime Lerner
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with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
Anita Loos
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It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
Geoffrey West
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The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.
DeRay Mckesson
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I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
Laurence Fishburne
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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.
Curtis Hanson
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As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
Stephen M. Ross
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I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.
Harry Triguboff
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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
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
Lennie James
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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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Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.
Marin Cilic
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire
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I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
Aja Brown
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I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me.
Ed Kowalczyk
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She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
Earl Lovelace
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How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
Willi Unsoeld
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New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
Max von Sydow
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
Van Morrison
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We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
Kevin Plank
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I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
DeRay Mckesson
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It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.
Derek Jeter