City Quotes
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There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.
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Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.
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It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.
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We are prepared as a city to put on the best Mardi Gras that we have ever seen.
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I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.
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There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
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Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.
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Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.
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When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.
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The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.
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I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.
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I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.
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I want to be in such a basketball city like New York.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.
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It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.
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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
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I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
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I love New York City.
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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
