City Quotes
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
Patrick Geddes
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I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.
Dakota Johnson
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I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.
Danny Meyer
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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
Loretta Lynn
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Zhang Ziyi
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This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Hernan Cortes
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I think it is most appropriate that the President of the United States, whose business place is in Washington, should come to this city and participate in these rallies. Because the business of the Government is the business of the people - and the people are right here.
John F. Kennedy
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
Charles Edward Merriam
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling
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Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
Beto O'Rourke
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
Jack Dangermond
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Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
Christopher Morley
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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
Gary Lineker
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
Fred Thompson
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Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
Vera Wang
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
Forest Whitaker
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One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Sophocles
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
Sal Albanese
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I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
Amy Sedaris
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When the Stranger says: 'What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?' What will you answer? 'We all dwell together To make money from each other'? or 'This is a community'?
T. S. Eliot