Quotes about cities
cities jail advice
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. P. J. O'Rourke
cities yield temptation
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? P. G. Wodehouse
cities oxford space
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane. Mark Haddon
cities scotland parent
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. Maria Monk
cities careers actors
I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff. Paul Rudd
cities oddities opaque
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. Michel De Certeau
cities mexico threat
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. Michael Nyman
cities people city-streets
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. Markus Zusak
cities russia snow
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.
cities great-day want
Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United. Mark Lawrenson
cities white people
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Mario Cuomo
cities interesting would-be
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. Frank Norris
cities towns small-town
Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. Francois Rabelais
cities like-family feels
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. Chris Noth
cities oklahoma-city television
I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for. Chris Harrison
cities mind metropolis
All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind. Hans-Georg Gadamer
cities london places-you-go
London: A place you go to get bronchitis. Fran Lebowitz
cities beverly-hills los-angeles
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
cities large-cities
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. George Washington
cities violence sometimes
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
cities mind renaissance
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana
cities tiny wealthy
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love. Mara Wilson
cities downtown able
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was. Jordin Sparks
cities texas earth
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth. JoBeth Williams
cities people constant
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people. Joanne Harris
cities construction-workers matter
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. James Surowiecki
cities blood directors
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life. James Patterson
cities magic literature
Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis
cities attention lasts
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all. Norton Juster
cities minorities faces
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other. Ellen Goodman
cities looks path
Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed. Ellen G. White
cities age united-states
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Eric Alterman
cities brotherhood beloved
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus