2372 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months. Charlie Parker

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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. Dave Grohl

Music Me Other Gave City More Chicago Than America Any

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' David Mamet

Work Family Church Diversity Country Healthy State Indeed Security City One-Size-Fits-All Determined More Adventure Name Another Makes Person May Size Want Leisure Slavery Need

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen

Needs Car Bicycle City Like Fish

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris

City Clearly Concrete Jungle Human Then Zoo

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth

City Vegas Never Stops Las Vegas

Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen. Greta Gerwig

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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. Hamlin Garland

My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me. Henry Winkler

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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. Herb Caen

Conflict Opportunity Mind State Marketplace City Clash Ideas Opinions Traded Truths Taste May Where Eternal Produce

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. Isabel Allende

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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. Jack Ma

Teacher School Before Flunked Later Considered Worst High City High School Exam Student Students Federation Studying Became Accepted Times Elected Teachers English English Teacher Chairman Two University

Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color. James Comey

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Janet Echelman

Life City River Been Central Centuries Four Last Amsterdam

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease. Jeremy Piven

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The trouble with Trump's father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call. Jimmy Breslin

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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. Joan Didion

Love Money Power Dream City Mysterious Instead Mere New Perishable Shining Itself York Infinitely New York Romantic Notion

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly. Joan of Arc

You Made King Enter City Paris Marvel Truce True Over Days Duke End Quickly Burgundy Turn Fifteen Should

What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote. Joe Walsh

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Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld

Nature People Some People Consider City Some Derived Utopia

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