Top 311 Downtown Quotes & Sayings

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward.

I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

During the winter of 2013, we were running 'Comet' up in midtown - as opposed to downtown - and across the street in the Standard, and that was, like, our third time going at it, from Ars Nova to downtown to near Broadway. We weren't on Broadway. We were near Broadway, as we said.

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.

No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, 'We should do it.' We weren't making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn't fit it into anything and that was the point.

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place where you see the bigger picture of the city's social fabric. It's also a place where you see all the contradictions of having all these layers, classes, and differences at the same time. And this is also where they clash, and where they negotiate. They negotiate their demands, their tastes, the lifestyles they want to have. So it's a very interesting space. I think that Downtown has maintained that identity before, during, and after the revolution.

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to exchange political and cultural ideas. And so that's possibly a factor into why they went after these institutions, although there's been no public comment from the government on why these raids happened.

When I was a kid in the '60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht's, JCPenney, the little retailers - they sponsored all my sports teams.

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go Downtown, things'll be great when you're Downtown, don't wait a minute more Downtown, everything's waiting for you

Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by White people, we were forced by circumstances to let our dollars circulate in our own communities. When you were young and I was young, there was a plethora of Black businesses. But when White folks said, "yes, come and spend your money with us," we ran downtown when we could only pass through downtown. Now downtown has our money.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.