City Quotes

• The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Country
  • Done
  • Distance

• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • House
  • Chicago
  • October

• I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

  

  Arthur Frommer
  • Culture
  • Interested
  • Travelers

• I live not too far from it in New York City.

  

  Piper Perabo
  • Live
  • City

• Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • City
  • Revolution

• Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Money
  • City
  • Doors

• When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Baseball

• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • City
  • Hands

• There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Taken
  • Blame

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • Road
  • Summer

• At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

  

  Matt Cain
  • City
  • Boy

• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Great
  • End

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • Morning
  • Eye

• About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • Job
  • College
  • Friend

• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Weird
  • Sea
  • Mountain

• I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Boy
  • Bike
  • Fat

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Live
  • Why
  • Looking

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Work
  • Taken

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Guy

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