Quotes About City

In the most intellectual city of the ancient world, in its most intellectual age, Socrates, its most intellectual inhabitant, discouraged the study of physics because they engendered uncertainty, and did not augment human happiness. The kind of knowledge which is most connected with human progress now was that least connected with it then.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.

'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.

It's a difference between a good rapper and 'king of the city,' they're two different things. You can be a better rapper than me, that don't mean you're king of the city.

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

I was always popular 'cause I've been rapping since I was 10 years old. Where I am from, I already had songs that I would perform at the parties in the city and like, pep rallies at school. So, I was always popular because I am famous where I am from.

I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.

I never really thought about the fact that most of the times I saw Black Panther, he was in New York or in some American city doing something cool with the Avengers. I mean, he's the Prince of Wakanda, but we rarely saw him in Wakanda.

That this city has second lines - it's something I'm proud of. When the bands come back from the cemetery, they'll play something up - something like 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)' - that will bring the people back to life.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

You watch guys like Ray Lewis, you watch guys like Brian Urlacher, everything they accomplished was dope. But it was cool to see them do it for one team, one city and really cement their legacy where they were at.

I love everything about Delhi, mostly the fact that people here never fail to react to music.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.

Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.

The value of real estate to a city is huge. A community that is invested in making deep roots in an area creates a commitment to making their city the best it can be. It becomes a common bond.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.

In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.