City Quotes - page 4

[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. (Daniel Dennett)
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. View quote
Doug Larson
The people really are what make New York City great. View quote
David Dinkins
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages. View quote
David Dinkins
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. View quote
Armistead Maupin
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love. View quote
Bernadette Peters
There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage. View quote
Dabney Coleman
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are. (Elisabeth Rohm)
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit. View quote
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. View quote
Ivan Allen, Jr.
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place. View quote
Otto Schily
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think. View quote
Stone Gossard
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. View quote
Thomas Menino
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams. View quote
Thomas Menino
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. View quote
Vito Fossella
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. (Wilfred Burchett)
I like doing business in a black city. View quote
Yaphet Kotto
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. View quote
John Updike
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
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