In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Votes: 3
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City. Votes: 3
Harland WilliamsHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Votes: 1
George BurnsI taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. Votes: 0
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleyChicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Votes: 0
Charles Edward MerriamOh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAt the city citadel,citation is for a cit who ennobles his citizenship." Votes: 0
Anyaele Sam ChiysonSt. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. Votes: 0
Valentina MatviyenkoThe life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Votes: 0
Katharine Lee BatesI love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. Votes: 0
J. Richard SingletonI doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightAround the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end. Votes: 0
Charles Hanson TowneThe city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 0
Leon Battista AlbertiYou can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhen you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
Francesca Lia BlockWashington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
Paul Laurence DunbarSo this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.
Rainer Maria RilkeNew York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde ThurstonIowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin HilderbrandAn interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.
Garrison KeillorIn New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
George D. PrenticeI'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.
Shirley MacLaineI think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
Alex RodriguezThose dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
Anthony J. CarsonLos Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
Ed Begley, Jr.The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
Francis QuarlesI cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
Harold WashingtonI think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
Jemaine ClementBe it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena KapoorThere isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
Patricia BriggsThe city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
Alfred Lord TennysonI regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.
Arthur FrommerLike a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief SeattleIt was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.
Kurt VonnegutThe automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Philip JohnsonDrugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
Bonnie Jo CampbellThis city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
Gerry RaffertyShould I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita
Laurell K. HamiltonNice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
Patrick ModianoThis is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt WhitmanThe same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.
Bubba SparxxxI always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.
Caroline LeavittNew York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
Fran LebowitzNew York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
Michael MooreThis very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
Michel de MontaigneParis has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
Natalie Clifford BarneyVenice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
Peggy GuggenheimI shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.
Russell WestbrookIt's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.
Henry BonillaI enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.
James MaslowI always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.
Kurt FullerI never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
Mark TwainI wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
Nan GoldinIf I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
Noel GallagherThere were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
Phife DawgIt takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.
Timothy KellerParis is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van VechtenThe old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).
Charles BaudelaireHow the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian EkwensiThe beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.
Emma StoneStuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out,
Jake BuggThis is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
Jane JacobsThe City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.
John LanchesterThis is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.
Lauren ConradThank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
Rocky AndersonThe axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
Andy WarholI would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.
Anne MalloryThe volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
Boris JohnsonIt is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
Carlos TevezWhat kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,
Donald SterlingIn every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal,
Enrique PenalosaEvery city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.
Gary HustwitSome people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
Joel SternfeldAs I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
Mason CooleyA fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
Ralph KleinManute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.
Woody AllenChicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.
Chance The RapperThe city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,
Colson WhiteheadDublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
Derek LandyThey should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.
Doug LarsonIf I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career
Lenny BruceWhere the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
Louis Eric BarrierChicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.
Michael SucsyThe city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Philibert Joseph RouxIn a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.
Ayumi HamasakiIt feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
Gayle FormanTo take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
John BanvilleModern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le CorbusierMorning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!
Mehmet Murat ildanMost benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas ChamfortThe war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.
Paul VixieA city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
Pier Giorgio Di CiccoI hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)
Stuart PearceA man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Thomas BrowneI am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
Thomas MeninoOnce fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Walt WhitmanCaen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
Willie BrownI made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
Danny BoyleI don't want to have thousands of people shot in a city where, essentially, I'm the president.
Donald TrumpI didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
Greta Gerwig'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.
Ilana GlazerAre you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Jim MorrisonI come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
John BunyanThe city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.
Kate Chopin[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.
Kurt VonnegutA thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
Rudyard KiplingI am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm JamesonIt was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
David LettermanI'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.
Isaac MarionThe great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.
John CleeseA suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
Mason CooleyIt is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
Nancy SpainA city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
AristotleThe whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.
Bill BurrWhat Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
Candace BushnellNew York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
Isaac SternThe city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Italo CalvinoCity's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.
John Carlos FreyFor we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
John WinthropI just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.
Mark WahlbergI feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.
Matt WertzI always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.
Michiel HuismanHell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.
Steven J LawsonThe young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
Wes MooreI wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Oscar WildeMy soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
Bruce SpringsteenMan will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Franz GrillparzerAny city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
Ginni RomettyThe pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream "¦ Hang in there.
James De La VegaIn the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study
John P. MarquandAn amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.
Karen AbbottYou live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildanNew York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.
Nancy PickardNew York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
Pharoahe MonchA city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter
Pier Giorgio Di CiccoThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Katherina LangerI had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.
Chris PaulNew York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
Colson WhiteheadFor in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Evelyn WaughA great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
Ray DaviesMay every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
Ronald ReaganIf I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
Ruta SepetysWhen God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.
Simon R. GreenCity life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Stephen KingAnd finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
Vito FossellaEbola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'
Bill MaherNew York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?
David LettermanThe year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.
Jason WilesPerhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Norton JusterSometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City)
Claudio ReynaCity employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
Jane ByrneTrue enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.
Jay CrownoverIn the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
Jimmy CliffI was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
John PodhoretzGo to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
JonahAs for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
Pearl S. BuckA contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
Raymond WilliamsThe colors. The city. Nothing. But they've got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.
Roddy WhiteI don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.
Shenae GrimesNew York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi MurakamiI really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
Zaha HadidI'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. Votes: 4 Donald Trump
When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business. Votes: 1 Gabrielle Aplin
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach. Votes: 1 Luca Parmitano
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. Votes: 3 O. Henry
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there. Votes: 2 James De La Vega
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy. Votes: 3 Terry Bradshaw
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.' Votes: 1 Jack Reynor
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay. Votes: 1 Gregory David Roberts
If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai. Votes: 1 Ashwin Sanghi
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life. Votes: 2 Beverly Cleary
The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that. Votes: 6 Ana Ortiz
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. Votes: 4 Pranab Mukherjee
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Votes: 2 Nancy Gibbs
Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool. Votes: 1 Leigh Lezark
The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. Votes: 3 Markus Zusak
If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them. Votes: 3 Denis O'Hare
If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it. Votes: 3 Sal Albanese
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. Votes: 1 Jeff Hawkins
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929. Votes: 3 Anna Godbersen
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are. Votes: 5 Elisabeth Rohm
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. Votes: 1 Jerry Garcia
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. Votes: 1 Jeff Hawkins
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? Votes: 3 Laura Miller
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Votes: 2 Arundhati Roy
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. Votes: 3 Alphonse de Lamartine
But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square Votes: 6 Puff Daddy
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. Votes: 6 William Gibson
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.' Votes: 1 Jack Reynor
Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night. Votes: 3 Dustin Milligan
I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City. Votes: 1 Regina Hall
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. Votes: 1 Pablo Neruda
The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras. Votes: 6 Sean Young
Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool. Votes: 2 Leigh Lezark
When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business. Votes: 1 Gabrielle Aplin
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past. Votes: 1 Kate Forsyth
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. Votes: 1 Edward Bellamy
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. Votes: 2 Nelson Algren
Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. Votes: 3 Cory Booker
Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. Votes: 3 Cassandra Clare
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves. Votes: 3 Cassandra Clare
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. Votes: 4 Alfred Noyes
I know the moment you died,Jesus' face was smiling on you,Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now Votes: 3 Lisa Bedrick
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team. Votes: 1 Earl Campbell
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Votes: 1 Katharine Lee Bates
I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world. Votes: 3 Freida Pinto
No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself. Votes: 3 Cassandra Clare
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. Votes: 3 Mathieu Kassovitz
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. Votes: 1 Daryl Hall
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are. Votes: 1 Joel Edgerton
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. Votes: 1 Jane D. Hull
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. Votes: 5 Teju Cole
City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen. Votes: 1 Alice Cooper
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. Votes: 7 Richard Rogers
I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is. Votes: 3 Randall Cunningham
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. Votes: 1 Joshua Slocum
Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language. Votes: 3 Chris Hedges
New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined. Votes: 1 Shawn Amos
I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning. Votes: 7 Chris Kattan
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. Votes: 1 Sal Albanese
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. Votes: 1 Richard Reeves
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.' Votes: 2 Os Guinness
A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. Votes: 3 George R. R. Martin
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers. Votes: 3 William Julius Wilson
I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach. Votes: 2 Rose Byrne
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. Votes: 2 Bill Gates
I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city. Votes: 2 Dani Shapiro
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat. Votes: 4 Trent Jamieson
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. Votes: 1 Nandan Nilekani
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. Votes: 2 Meg White
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. Votes: 1 P. J. O'Rourke
I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city. Votes: 1 Louis MacNeice
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world. Votes: 1 John Darnielle
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion. Votes: 1 Lynn Margulis
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. Votes: 1 Herb Caen
Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit. Votes: 3 Michael Steger
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship. Votes: 1 Hanya Yanagihara
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. Votes: 0 Karen Armstrong
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time. Votes: 1 Lee Bermejo
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful. Votes: 2 Christopher Meloni
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Votes: 1 Nancy Gibbs
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. Votes: 2 James L. Farmer, Jr.
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. Votes: 2 Al Sharpton
I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly. Votes: 1 CeeLo Green
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. Votes: 2 Fred Thompson
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. Votes: 6 Derek Luke
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. Votes: 6 Billy Sunday
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant. Votes: 1 David Cook
The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires. Votes: 1 J. J. Field
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. Votes: 3 Pranab Mukherjee
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 2 Leon Battista Alberti
I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London. Votes: 2 Hayley Atwell
Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney. Votes: 1 Morris Gleitzman
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways. Votes: 5 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. Votes: 1 Zubin Mehta
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city. Votes: 4 Lil Wayne
I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities. Votes: 4 Rob Kardashian
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. Votes: 4 Jon Stewart
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. Votes: 4 John Guare
Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared. Votes: 1 January Jones
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Votes: 1 Christo
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. Votes: 1 Robert Smithson
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City. Votes: 1 Dabney Coleman
Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job. Votes: 2 Janet Jackson
I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city. Votes: 3 Constance Renfrow
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. Votes: 3 Steve McQueen
Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. Votes: 2 Patti Stanger
Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word. Votes: 3 Jane Leavy
I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done. Votes: 1 Tony Hale
Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah. Votes: 1 Bridget Hall
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. Votes: 3 Sebastian Bach
When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD. Votes: 1 Robert Osborne
The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people. Votes: 1 Alan Autry
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city. Votes: 2 Al-Waleed bin Talal
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Votes: 2 Giotto di Bondone
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.' Votes: 8 Nina Dobrev
I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City. Votes: 4 Steve Carell
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. Votes: 4 Michael Reagan
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. Votes: 1 Hesiod
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 4 Leon Battista Alberti
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. Votes: 1 Carl Stokes
Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. Votes: 1 Barbara Hershey
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. Votes: 1 Virginia Postrel
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. Votes: 1 Ed Stoppard
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. Votes: 2 Nancy Spain
Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise. Votes: 1 Ana Ortiz