Quotes about cities
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists. Samuel Johnson
cities race people
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. Sade Adu
cities actresses models
I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model. Saffron Burrows
cities cost natural
The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer. Ruth Graham
cities america shining
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan
cities world would-be
Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat Robert Jordan
cities knowing champion
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? Rocky Marciano
cities people next
Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities Robert Stephens
cities jet-planes noise
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
cities contact ifs
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
cities individuality parks
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality. Tony Hawk
cities house buying
You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house. Vanessa Paradis
cities estates aspect
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. V. S. Naipaul
cities looks bigs
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city. Roy Oswalt
cities employee committed
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance. Thomas Menino
cities giving diversity
Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.
cities fruit seven
I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them. Steven Erikson
cities careers two
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again. Steve Carell
cities people milan
In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German. Silvio Berlusconi
cities
I live in too many cities. Shirley MacLaine
cities bird soul
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Pierre Charron
cities firsts enlightening
The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. Pope Francis
cities terror-attacks mumbai
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. Raj Thackeray
cities glasses pieces
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Tennessee Williams
cities palimpsest site
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. Teju Cole
cities labs faces
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to. Randall Munroe
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 pages naples
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid. Stacy Schiff
cities soul listening
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. Stefon Harris
cities alive amsterdam
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
cities bagels fit
I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough. Sophie Kinsella
cities shopping california
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Thomas Pynchon
cities fame seven
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood