City Quotes

• Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

  

  Frei Otto
  • Why
  • Society
  • Design

• Actually, like the vast majority of Australians, I had been born and raised in a city, but in the British imagination at that time the whole of Australia was still the outback, which was somehow equipped with a beach. Later on, this outback beach acquired an Opera House and a row of brick bungalows, one of them occupied by Kylie Minogue.

  

  Clive James
  • Time
  • House
  • Imagination

• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • School
  • Government

• I kind of wanted to be a waitress in New York City. I thought it was fun and glamorous in its own way. Like in the movie 'Beaches,' when Bette Midler is banging on the radiator, and it's cold, and she's poor. I kind of thought that would be fun to be, like, a poor, struggling actor.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • She
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads - in the end - to the best within us.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Country
  • City
  • Road

• England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • City

• I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Growing up in Los Angeles, obviously it's a really fashionable city, but it has a really relaxed quality to it as well. So, my fashion education came while working on 'Suits'.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Up
  • Education
  • Growing

• Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.

  

  Gene Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Fire

• We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

  

  Joe Lhota
  • City

• You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • Happy
  • Band

• Sound sounds are terrible in the city, but it's great to listen and to walk and listen to people talk to each other. There are birds. You hear spring. I like listening to the city.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Great
  • Listening

• I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Great
  • Love
  • City

• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Free
  • Small
  • Sleep

• Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Small

• My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Up
  • Political
  • Dad

• The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Me
  • City
  • Brave

• She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'

  

  Laura Nyro
  • She
  • City

• I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

  

  Paul Tagliabue
  • Great
  • Team
  • Football

• Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Women
  • Business
  • Alone

• We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • America
  • Community

• London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • City
  • White

• I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Time
  • Business
  • Opportunity

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