City Quotes

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows
- Children
- Family
- Father
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

John Bruton
- City
- Confidence

Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.

Brigham Young
- World
- Children
- Why
I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.

Ari Graynor
I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey.

Ann Nocenti
- Live
- Running
- Learning
Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

Duncan Jones
- Real
- Science
- Light
I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

David Zucker
- City
- College
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

Jeffrey Archer
- Earth
- City