Quotes About City

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

The AAP government has turned Delhi into a city of potholes and has hurt the sentiments of people of the city.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

OK, so I never had a transfer in my career, but I used to love deadline day: Dimitar Berbatov turning up at Manchester airport with hours to go, Robinho coming to Manchester City instead of Chelsea.

London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said - the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

New York is great in your twenties.

You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.