City Quotes
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.
Adriana Trigiani
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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.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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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.
Alan Brien
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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.
Lea Thompson
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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle
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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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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
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I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.
Caroline Wozniacki
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There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.
Alan Ryan
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I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.
John Boyega
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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.
Kabir
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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.
Kim Cattrall
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Damon has emerged as a major celebrity in our city. To combine him with his Hall of Fame brother it makes for an even more special event.
Keith Pelley
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I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.
Eric Bristow
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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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New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
Kathleen Battle
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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me.
Walt Whitman
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I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.
Philip Glass
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If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
Antony Beevor
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I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.
Lidia Bastianich
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We hear the term 'stadium fatigue' a lot. But if you look at our contributions to the city - we employ a lot of people, we pay a lot of taxes and we generate a lot of business.
Walter Frederick Walker
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I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
Gene Green
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London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.
John McEnroe
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How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
Sarah Parcak