Quotes About City

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

Big city mayors don't play well with voters outside their city anymore. Just ask John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Kevin White, Tom Bradley, Dick Riordon. Rudy Giuliani is no exception.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.

As a family, we were settled in London. The kids loved their schools.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

Shanghai is an amazing city. The fans were so nice to my family and to myself and just treated us as their own. I'm extremely grateful to the Sharks for that opportunity.

Sheffield has everything as far as I'm concerned and the football club is right in the heart of it.

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

Would I like to wear the Napoli shirt in the future? Certainly, they are the team of my city.

Shooting in Jaipur was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is culturally quite rich, and each part of it has a history.

I'm much more of a city girl. I like the mall. I like shopping.

I love the atmosphere of shopping in London. Sometimes I just go into a boutique, not to buy but to listen to the music.