Top 1200 American Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

In big cities, things go by too fast.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

I think I'll always consider the Quad Cities home.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

I got kids so whenever I can, I fly them out to the cities I'm in.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations but their statements are published on American media platforms, it may appear that they originate in this country or reflect our sentiments. We have our own dissident voices to be sure, but too frequently every challenging voice that criticizes the Holy Father and is broadcast on American media is identified as American in origin.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

I go through about 140 cities a year.

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

Art music is an evolving matter, and so are a lot of cities.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump's absurd claim that they're 'un-American' and instead understand that it's very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.