City Quotes
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
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I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?
Jonathan Levine
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When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists.
David E. Sanger
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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
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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Constance Baker Motley
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The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'
Alan Tudyk
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Visitors are coming to see a city that looks like a disaster movie set, but it could become fascinating if young people can get a chance to turn this shit into something new and exciting.
Kevin Saunderson
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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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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.
Eric Metaxas
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.
John Ruskin
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I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
Tom Ridge
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They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.
Bobby Abreu
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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
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And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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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.
Jonathan Groff
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I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.
Jillian Hervey
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I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.
Donald Trump, Jr.
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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
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I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic City.'
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
Nancy Paine Stoll
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
Adolf Hitler
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
Henry Ward Beecher