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Quotes About City

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.
~ David Letterman
She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believe. The city would soon follow her lead.
~ Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
~ Magic Johnson
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.
~ Steven Wright
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
~ John Updike
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.
~ Emo Philips
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."
~ David Letterman
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
~ Neil Simon
This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.
~ George Lopez
Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
~ Fred Allen
Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.
~ Frankie Boyle
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
~ Billy Eichner
Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city's most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint
~ Brent Weeks
This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America
~ Ilya Ilf
I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.
~ Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.
~ Jane Jacobs
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
~ Salman Rushdie
Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.
~ Henry Winkler
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.
~ Rem Koolhaas
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
~ David Letterman
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
~ Bette Midler