City Quotes

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

~ Ice Cube

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

~ Jerry Garcia

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

~ Colm Tóibín

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

~ Dana Goodyear

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

~ Tom Ford

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

~ Chris Kattan

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

~ Bill Goldberg

I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

~ Vicente Fox

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

~ Warren Christopher

I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

~ Chris Noth

I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.

~ Kristen Bell

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

~ Federico García Lorca

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

~ Richard Meier

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

~ Jaime Lerner

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

~ Frank Gehry

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

~ Claire Tomalin

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

~ Frank Gehry

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

~ Ruth Bernhard

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

~ Toyo Ito

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

~ Claes Oldenburg

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

~ Zaha Hadid

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

~ Richard Rogers

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

~ Helmut Jahn

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

~ Alvar Aalto

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

~ Angela Davis

I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.

~ Katherine Mcnamara

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

~ Allan Savory

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

~ Nikola Tesla

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

~ Moby

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

~ Joel Salatin

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

~ Paul Prudhomme

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.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

~ Lactantius

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

~ Walt Whitman

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

~ Michael Bloomberg

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón