City Quotes

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
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
- Believe
- True
- Always

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

Evan Osnos
- City
- Chinese
- Motorcycle
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Estelle
- House
- City
- Opinion
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
- Important
- City
- Forgotten
There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

Catherynne M. Valente
- Waiting
- Loves
- U.S.
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
- Garden
- Busy
- Bells
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound
- Poetry
- New York
- Flame