Quotes About Cities

San Francisco is a lot like Amsterdam - free, open-minded and casual - though I expected better weather.

Manchester is the same as Milan. The weather is the same, and you have two big clubs fighting against each other.

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

Air quality is already a problem outside of cars: More than 80 percent of people living in cities where pollution is tracked are exposed to air quality levels below World Health Organization limits.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.

I do support 'sanctuary cities,' and I would be a firm, non-negotiable 'no' vote on any deliberations that include the possibility of blocking funding for them.

On-demand ridesharing can make cities less congested and polluted and free up resources. Shared rides can become so affordable that they cost the same as a bus ride today.

I love checking out new cities when I'm on tour - it's fun and eye-opening. I always look for cute cafes and good shopping.

So it's rare if I go to a city and don't shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.

By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

The main issue of cities is to tackle climate change and it is the issue of the current and next generations. Sustainability cannot be emphasized too much and I have designated the issue of climate change as the most important to solve.

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

Sydney has taken my money, Melbourne has my respect, but Adelaide has taken my heart; I shall return.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

Across thirty-two cities worldwide, people in 2006 were walking an average 10 percent faster than they were in 1994.

In the mid-1970s, the federal government began to recommend that cities use their public housing funds this way. Yet most cities, Chicago and Philadelphia being extreme examples, continued to situate public housing in predominantly low-income African American neighborhoods.

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