Top 1200 Mexico City Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

It's illegal in the U.S., but I had it done in Mexico. They break the floating rib in the back and push it in, so there's no scar.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

I love poking and looking for things for the house, so I make a great many trips to Mexico.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

I would never call people that are born in this country who are from Mexico 'terror babies.'

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

While everyone knows that London is both big and overprivileged when it comes to spending, the scale of its dominance is poorly understood. London is not just the biggest city in the UK, it is the biggest city in western Europe. It is also the richest region.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

Mexico is ripping off the US more than almost any other nation.

I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

I took a trip down to Mexico. It kind of changed my perspective on life a little bit.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Cops in New York City don't have the best reputation. It's a fast-paced city, and they deal with a lot, and many people have seen lots of cops interact with the public utilizing what can be gently called 'not the best customer service.'

Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

I played the Azteca Stadium in Mexico to 100,000 people - that's something I never thought I'd do.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the Unites States does.

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.