Top 1200 City Council Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It's both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Don't give up. Listen to others, but follow your own council.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.

The New York Public Library is a wonderful gem. I go there to get away from the bustle of the city. They have an incredible collection of menus from all over the city.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.

Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

New York City is home to some of the most talented individuals anywhere, and whether you are born here or a transplant, the city has always had a tendency to breed perfection.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.

But I love Baltimore to death. That's my city. It's diverse and growing up there, it was just fun. Personally, I had trials and tribulations with my parents and everything like that, but that's nothing on the city.

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

I'm not a big fan of moving from city to city.

I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Depending on what's happening in the world, what music is coming out, what city I'm in, I do some research on a place I'm going to, get a feel for it, and maybe do something that would be special for that city.

The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.