City Quotes
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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.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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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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You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
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We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
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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.
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.
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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.
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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.
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I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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So id burn this whole city down just to show you the light.
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
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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.