Top 1200 City Parks Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

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.

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 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.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

[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.

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

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

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

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

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.

Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

New York is the only real city-city.

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

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.

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.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

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.

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.

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.

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.

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

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.

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

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

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

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.

I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition as Manchester City.

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.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

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.

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

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

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.

It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

So what, I'm living in a park. Parks are beautiful. I'm a musician. And I'm tired of dumb people who don't know where I come from.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

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.

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.

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

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.

New York City is my favorite city in the world.

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.

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

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.

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

Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.

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.

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.

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.

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