Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

He means a lot to us and a lot to the city and the organization. He's earned it, and it couldn't have happened to a finer guy.

We can get a lot of people to donate money for this, not just the city. Once the city approves this, we can get that money at the drop of a hat.

Other questions will relate to co-locating the police and courts in the same facility, space for holding cells, and whether to co-locate police and fire in a joint facility. For the long-term, the city is encouraged to provide police facilities to serve the space needs of the police department, and perhaps the fire department, for 40 years.

Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand and strengthen our community efforts to impact this serious health challenge, especially as it relates to our children.

Retailers in the city who really depended on this last rush are probably not going to get what they expected.

Rents in the city will continue to go up this year.

(Residents) will not see a difference in the way the city is running.

Joel Edgerton

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

People who live in the city were much more positive about the community and happier about where they lived than in the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. It has something to do with D.C. being a grown-up city and the suburbs still have growing pains.

Really, we should not. City Hall is not approachable. To be honest, I think they should all go.

Really the soul of the city is what people are trying to get back to. Its not a structure. Its not a street name. Its what we know as New Orleans. And what we can feel when we get together.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

I pointed out to them the severe economic impact on a city still recovering from the terrible tragedy of the September 11th attack, the financial hardships being experienced by those employed in this and related industries, and the disappointment of theater-goers from around the world that the strike was causing,

In Tupelo, the city planning commission televises its meetings, too.

In the past, we had to provide more and longer trains for that key period of time. Now, any train going to the city can drop people off for the speeches.

In the Cabinet, he's done really well. . . . The mayor is committed to diversity throughout all ranks of city government.

If you want to impact sprawl, you have to impact families. That's why there's sprawl in the first place. They can't find housing in the city that meets their income level.

If you write plays there are only two places in the world where you would want them to be staged. One is New York, the other is the West End of the greatest city in the world - London.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city

Marla Maples

In New York, I had not had my name in the papers. Nothing really prepares you for a city like New York, especially when you become known.

In my opinion, the public needs to have a lot more input. I don't think the (current) city commission has a good pulse on the majority of opinions.

In fact, by going to New York City we are going home because one out of every four city residents is a Latino.

Paul Revere

In every city we play in the clock never works. It reminds me of Back to the Future.

In a city where things rarely get done overnight, we made things happen overnight.

In a city of 4 million people, you've got to have a few people who don't like change, who say they remember going to Fulton County Stadium with their kids, sitting in the rain and cold, and thought that was a great experience.

I have filed a complaint with the Moscow City Court chairwoman, particularly about the refusal to open a review of proceedings.

I have felt bereft. The city Richard and I knew and loved, that city's gone, I think irrevocably.

If you are running for mayor of the city of New Orleans, you must have a plan to get us through the worst crisis in our history.

If you put that thing back up, the whole city is going down.