City Quotes

• 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.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Done
  • Happy
  • City

• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Teacher

• I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.

  

  El Greco
  • City
  • Answer
  • Bound

• 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.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Live
  • City
  • Car

• We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Los Angeles

• Guys don't know they're pussy whipped until it's too late. Until you do something that lets you know, like when you shush your friends: 'Hey, man, remember that time we went to Vegas and...?' 'Dude, shut the fuck up about Vegas! The fuck are you doing?! The window's open, man! She's somewhere in the city!'

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• 'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Interesting
  • City

• Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • America
  • Promise
  • Ship

• Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

  

  Socrates
  • Happy
  • Purpose
  • Founding

• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • World
  • Lost

• I live in the greatest city in the world for research.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • World
  • Live
  • City

• Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

  

  Elin Hilderbrand
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Ocean

• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  

  Alan Brien
  • City
  • Images
  • Waiters

• I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

  

  John Boyega
  • City

• I'm a product of the city for sure.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • City
  • Product

• Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • City
  • Paris

• Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

  

  David Shields
  • Team
  • Passion
  • Sports

• There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • City
  • Alone
  • Going On

• 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.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Softball

• When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

  

  David Shields
  • Culture
  • City

• I never, ever thought I would get to say I was opening a show for the Bay City Rollers.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • City

• It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Water
  • Mean

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