City Quotes
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We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
Peter Maurer -
Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.
Andrew Zimmern
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I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
I. M. Pei -
The city does not read the fine print. It’s hard – NP-hard, to be precise – when verifying the contract structure is computationally intractable within the lifetime of the Universe.
Hannu Rajaniemi -
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 -
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
Scott Westerfeld -
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
C. S. Lewis -
In a starving and beaten city, gold and silver could turn a man invisible.
Ben Galley
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
Adolf Hitler -
My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.
John Cena -
I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you're always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.
Margherita Missoni -
After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
Andrew Yan -
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
Meir Kahane -
The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.
Emma Stone
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Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.
Joseph Brodsky -
The cool, grey city of love.
George Sterling -
The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
Lupita Nyong'o -
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 -
The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.
Jimmy Breslin -
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
Edward Rutherfurd
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris Lessing -
The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.
Drew Carey -
We will make a city hall that truly serves the people who live there.
Cory Booker -
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