City Quotes - page 8

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 a.m. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. (Herb Caen)
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. View quote
Don DeLillo
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. View quote
Alan Alda
So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nassariyeh - the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 - why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad? View quote
Robert Fisk
The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. View quote
Desmond Morris
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong. View quote
Harlan Ellison
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey. View quote
Alexander Ovechkin
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. View quote
Bob Woodward
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. View quote
John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. View quote
Harry Connick
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. View quote
Anthony Trollope
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. View quote
Ron Reagan
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. View quote
Robert Smithson
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. View quote
Abraham Cowley
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. View quote
Alice Cooper
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over New York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says,'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. View quote
Paul Desmond
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. (Albert Camus)
Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else -- it's such a great city [New York]. L. A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York. View quote
Will Arnett
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel. View quote
Tommy Douglas
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.