City Quotes
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I want to be in such a basketball city like New York.
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In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.
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I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.
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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.
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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
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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.
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I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
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Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.
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Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.
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To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
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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 was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.
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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.
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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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I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.
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The cool, grey city of love.
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I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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'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.
