2382 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. Martin Cruz Smith

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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Martin Filler

First City John Puritan Envisioned Most Hill Gospel Saint Proverbial According Matthew Persistent American Via Shores Images

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. Martti Ahtisaari

Peace Rest Country Lost City Born Attacked Finland Part Along Fellow Became Still Years Person Soviet Soviet Union Childhood Eternally Then Union Displaced Found Mediator Origins Career

A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training. Marvin Ammori

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When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. Mary Doria Russell

Family City Girlfriend Ruth Poetry Weeks Studying Accepted Were Anthropology Mexican Mexico Mexico City Six Lovely While Placed Spanish Them Us Lived Applied Program

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. Mary J. Blige

Life Love Government Myself Me You Love Me Responsibility My Life Feeling Sorry Owes Every Else Took City Something More Mentality Part Parties Gotta Came Than Stopped Anybody Anybody Else Pity Loves Breakthrough Inner Inner City

When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence. Mary Pilon

Police First Year Pedestrian Others Ran Thousand City Through He New Lean Course Affair George Five York New York New York City Little Little Help Help Event Marathon Presence Streets Two

Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib. Mary Pilon

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When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion. Mary Quant

Fashion World First Carrying City Wearing Hats About Opened New Ideas Bowler Tightly New Ideas Still Were Shop

Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.' I never turned my back on that material. On some albums, you change - that's all. The trick is to follow your heart and do what feels right. Mat Kearney

You Change Heart Black Black And White Follow Your Heart Lose Nothing White Back Trick City Follow Some Tour Never Songs Perform Feels Material Still Left Where Turned Your Even Right Albums

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. Mathieu Kassovitz

Love You Reality Hate People Darkness Light Made Think France City Paris Known Got Were Trying Where Love You Show

We interviewed many, many men and women from the NYPD and the NYPD Intelligence Division, specifically, and they're really good, dedicated people who want to keep the city safe. Matt Apuzzo

Good Women People Intelligence Men Men And Women City Division Safe Want Really Dedicated Who Many Keep NYPD Specifically

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant. Matt Besser

Comedy Word City About Knew Know Came Chicago Improvisation As Far As Far Meant Pertaining Even Second Second City

In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat. Matt Cain

Food You Live Everywhere Francisco City Eat Tennessee Know How Off San San Francisco Navigate Fast Nowhere Fast Food

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy. Matt Cain

First Become City About Stubborn Boy Wanting

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst. Matt Czuchry

City Johnson Tennessee Gotta Go Blue Ribbon

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city. Matt Kemp

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities. Matthew Desmond

Man Every Frame Neighborhoods City About Smack Segregated Most Looked Talk Talking Within Times Which Poor Transitioning Communities Many Displacement Included Right Milwaukee

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see. Matthew Heineman

You Conflict Everything Ghosts Syrian City See About Wrong Because Understand How Fix Going Want Then Film

My favorite way of making films - and what has allowed me to get key scenes in 'Cartel Land' and 'City of Ghosts' - has been when I've been able to operate alone. Matthew Heineman

Alone Me Key Films Way Ghosts Favorite Has-Been City Able Scenes Allowed Operate Making Been Get Land

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy. Matthew McConaughey

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