Quotes about cities
cities twenties stores
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. Jay Leno
cities government crumbling
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works. Moby
cities nyc birth
I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.
cities friendly towns
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
cities rehabilitation criminals
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. Mike Royko
cities long three
I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen Krysten Ritter
cities perfect funeral
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld. Karl Philipp Moritz
cities paris culture
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured. Moliere
cities paper rooms
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers. Molly Ivins
cities paris giving
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail. H. L. Mencken
cities people monsters
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. Guillermo del Toro
cities shopping healthy
You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy. Greg Lake
cities mexico mexico-city
I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. Greg Kinnear
cities people water
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person. Grace Paley
cities civilization crucible
Cities are the crucible of civilization. Geoffrey West
cities metaphor arteries
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.
cities reflects trust word
I do not like the word 'rejection' but those cities we have not retained this in no way reflects that we do not trust these countries. Jacques Rogge
cities play jungle
You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle. Hunter S. Thompson
cities should projects
I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects. Hubert H. Humphrey
cities kansas-city america
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program. Howard Schultz
cities duke-university dukes
To get elected as a Democrat, it`s hard to be from the city. It`s hard to be a graduate of Duke University. Howard Fineman
cities next-day phones
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. Ice T
cities world los-angeles
I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles. Ice Cube
cities groups campaigns
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan
cities alive kill-me
I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me! Homer
cities city claim fame giving good nobel others ours prize proud reasons school small winner
How many small cities like ours can claim the fame of having had a Nobel Prize winner come from their city and school system? Plus, there are the others who are giving us good reasons to be proud of our city and history.
cities venice mirrors
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong
cities made turns
I can never turn my back on a city that made me. Eminem
cities people bumps
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns Jason Schwartzman
cities shapes born
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
cities names entering
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.
cities giving delight
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
cities lost quarters
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.