Cities Quotes
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I can never turn my back on a city that made me.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
Warren MacKenzie
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
Cate Blanchett -
The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.
Tommy Hilfiger -
This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.
Elsie de Wolfe -
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Ethel Waters -
I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
Chicken John -
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
Russell Baker
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When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.
Tommy Hilfiger -
Minnesota's a great city.
Ray Allen -
Cities make you afraid.
Conn Iggulden -
Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.
Elena Ferrante -
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.
Teju Cole -
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.
Steve Earle
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They should've built a city on rock and roll.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
Terry Bradshaw -
The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.
Elena Ferrante -
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
Studs Terkel