City Quotes
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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
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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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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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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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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
Benjamin Carson
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I can't think of any other city that has a self-styled working class of intellectuals. Educated men who don't have college. If you hang out in bars long enough, you're gonna hear some things.
Neal Pollack
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They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.
Bobby Abreu
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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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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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We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.
Eric Garcetti
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The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
JR artist
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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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I decided that I wanted to do my own collection about a city that I knew something about.
Neal Pollack
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The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.
Attia Hosain
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As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
Jonathan Kozol
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I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it!
Alessandra Ambrosio
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Just always believe in yourself... and dreams - and dreams do come true. For me to play in the same city I grew up in, I mean... I'm definitely blessed. But just always believe in yourself. And work hard. And dreams definitely come true.
Dellin Betances
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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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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.
Alexander Graham Bell
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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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London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
John Roger Stephens
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And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city.
Haruki Murakami