City Quotes

• 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
  • Time
  • Small
  • Community

• On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Small
  • Lost
  • City

• Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • World
  • Today
  • Financial

• I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.

  

  John Singleton
  • City
  • Party

• My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.

  

  John Cena
  • Good
  • Home
  • Sleep

• Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.

  

  Plato
  • People
  • City
  • Discipline

• Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Sales

• I have family in Oklahoma City.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Family
  • City

• I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • City

• The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.

  

  Emma Stone
  • People
  • City
  • Beauty

• 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
  • War
  • City
  • Divided

• 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.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Chaos

• Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • City
  • Buildings
  • Detroit

• When we were discussing 'Holby City, 'I told the producers that I wanted the Art Malik character to be honourable, and my other requirement was that he be a Muslim, because we need Muslims on TV.

  

  Art Malik
  • Art
  • Character
  • City

• 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
  • Live
  • Home
  • City

• A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Summer
  • England

• I am going to make sure that I enjoy it, won’t take it for granted and make the most of it. I have never been to Australia before, so I am going out there earlier to get used to the weather, the time difference and see the city a little bit before starting work properly on the Tuesday before the race.

  

  George Russell
  • Enjoy
  • See
  • Race

• 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
  • Success
  • Education
  • City

• This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.

  

  Ed Martin
  • City
  • Land
  • Fortunate

• City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People
  • Live
  • New York

• 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
  • People
  • America
  • City

• I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • City
  • Single
  • Adventure

• There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.

  

  Buddy Cianci
  • City
  • Democratic way
  • Republican way

• 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
  • Today
  • Food
  • City

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