City Quotes
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Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
Alan Autry
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong
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My mom would drive me from Cleveland to New York City and use my dad's hotel points for auditions. They were the most supportive parents that I could have. Without them, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
Lili Reinhart
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People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in... I've eaten it - there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America.
Andrew Zimmern
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
Plato
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I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
Chris Pavone
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The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
Steve Ross
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When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
Zach Condon
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I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.
Alicia Keys
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
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In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.
Lidia Bastianich
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People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.
Alice Schwarzer
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There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city of London becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.
Alasdair MacLean
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
Martin Luther
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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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
