Top 1200 Big City Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

When you are in a different city, you must relish the local food and I always like to try the authentic taste and flavours of a city.

I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people.

Chicago's a great city for filming. The city is so rich architecturally. I think that's part of what made 'Candyman' special.

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

I love Navi Mumbai, and I am proud to be a part of this city. The city has always inspired me to aim higher.

In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

Miami is a party city, a go-fast city.

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

Moving to Flagstaff from the big city of Melbourne taught me what it takes to become a better runner. For one, there is the altitude, but more importantly, seeking the best is about being surrounded by the best.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

No one is going to come here if it's a filthy city, if it's not a safe city.

The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

New York City is my favorite city in the world.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

Napoli belongs to the city and to the fans. If this city sees the team reach the final, it will be a source of pride.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is best for our City and its residents.

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

I know the one-week stands and the moving from city to city wears a lot of people down. But I find it exciting that's where the audiences are.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life.

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

The only thing I do miss is playing football. I had the choice to come to City and fight it out with all the big players and the world stars and it hasn't really worked out thus far.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.

I don't know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team's city.

If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They're not the biggest markets.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.

This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

New York is the only real city-city.