City Quotes
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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
Tony Bennett
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When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.
Jesse Watters
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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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I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
Edward Enninful
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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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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
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Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
Nicola Formichetti
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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.
Katherine Dunn
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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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Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).
Lucy Powell
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In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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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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I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
Anne Rivers Siddons
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We are going to rebuild this city. We can help replace, we can relieve disaster.
Dennis Hastert
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Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
P. D. James
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I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
Aja Brown
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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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No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.
Fletcher Knebel
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
Edwidge Danticat
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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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We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.
George Pataki
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Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world.
Henry Paulson
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
Lennie James