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Quotes About City

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city
~ Robert De Niro
I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.
~ Kid Rock
New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
~ Taylor Momsen
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.
~ Danny Brown
New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.
~ Eden Sher
I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.
~ Juliana Hatfield
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.
~ William J. Mitchell
Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.
~ C. J. Wilson
Start spreading the news, I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.
~ Frank Sinatra
I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.
~ Cameron Monaghan
I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
~ Jacoby Jones
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
~ Jaime Lerner
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
~ Alex Steffen
I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
~ Bill Bryson
Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?" Magnus to Alec
~ Cassandra Clare
New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.
~ David Letterman
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
~ Famke Janssen
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
~ Fran Lebowitz
Something awaits me. I do not mean this mad Emperor. Something else. Answer me this. How does one measure time?' 'By the course of the sun, the phases of the moon, the wheel of the stars. And, of course, in cities such as this one, the sounding of a bell at fixed intervals – a wholly absurd conceit and, indeed, one that is spiritually debilitating.
~ Steven Erikson
Oh frail city! Where strangers arrive Pushing into cracks There to abide Oh blue city! Old friends gather sighs At the foot of docks After the tide Uncrowned city! Where sparrows alight In spider tracks On sills well high Doomed city! Closing comes the night History awakens Here to abide Frail Age Fisher kel Tath
~ Steven Erikson
otherwise." The old man made no reply to that. They walked on in the city's sepulchral silence. The foundation stones and the low ridges of inner walls mapped the floor plans of the buildings to either side.
~ Steven Erikson
that each city forever wept beneath the streets, forever laughed, shouted, hawked wares and bartered and prayed and drew first breaths that brought life and the last breaths that announced death. Beneath the streets there were dreams, wisdom, foolishness, fears, rage, grief, lust and love and bitter hatred. The
~ Steven Erikson
La vague de Tenescowris, masse humaine devenue folle de faim, se fracassa inexorablement contre les murailles de la ville, puis les submergea. Les barricades élevées à l'emplacement des portes, ployant sous la pression, finirent par céder.
~ Steven Erikson