Best Cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.”

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“I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.”

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Author:Joe Lhota

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“Berlin is my favourite city.”

Cities Favourite Berlin Favourite City

Author:Logan Lerman

“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.”

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Author:Gaylord Nelson

“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

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Author:Jean Nouvel

“I love New York City.”

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Author:Li Na

“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

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Author:Michael Nutter

“I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.”

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Author:Michael Nyman

“My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.”

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Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.”

Fall Walks Cities New York Spring

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.”

Cities My Favorite Los Angeles Favorite City

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Cities are made for enemies to destroy.”

Made Cities Enemy

Author:Will Oldham

“I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.”

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Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which the Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder..."”

Source: World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization

“New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.”

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Author:William Jennings Bryan

“I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.”

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Author:Sasha Pieterse

“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”

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Author:Aleksa Palladino

“Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.”

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Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.”

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Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.”

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Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.”

Cities My Favorite Paris Favorite City

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.”

Kind Guy Cities Woods

Author:Aidan Quinn

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

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Author:Ginni Rometty

“It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!”

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Author:Margot Robbie

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.”

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Author:Lela Rose

“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.”

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Author:Paulina Rubio

“I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

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