2382 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both. Michael Connelly

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead. Michael Emerson

Life Out City Magazine Had Instead New How Been York New York New York City Figure Actor Grown-Up Illustrator Started

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good. Michael Heizer

Good Me School Father Thought Finished Later Out High Would City Admitted High School Paris Student Never He Taken Come Him Mexico Mexico City Anyway Straight Then Peru Bolivia Dad Lived

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through. Michael Imperioli

Police Tells Visual City Through Detroit Been Providing Authenticity Offers Michigan Blue-Collar Story Flavor Landscape Unique Slang Numbers

I am the oldest young designer in New York City. Michael Kors

Young City New Am York New York New York City Oldest Designer

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. Michael Mandelbaum

World Value Monumental Monuments City Highly Towers Most Tall Tallest Trade Buildings Were Cultures Center Grandest Noted Certainly Twin Societies World Trade Raise World Trade Center

I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses. Michael Mann

Personality Ride Before Every Once Out City No Idea About Something Horse Horses Had Knew Bought Idea Named Boy Dogs Go Years Pasture Stable Woods Personalities Realized Used Now Two

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. Michael Patrick King

You Age Women Heroes Sex Made Myth Single Shoes Correct Sex And The City Characters Run City Instead New Around Were Lot York New York Fancy Certain Certain Age Leper Four

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation. Michael Pollan

You People Agriculture Farm Okay Kind City New Piece End Up York Committee Going Represent Committees Legislation Commodity Representatives New York New York City Interest Your Farmers Special Special Interest Bills Fill

Every city's got a famous rib place or coffeehouse or dessert place. Michael Rapino

Every Dessert City Got Famous Place

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. Michael Reagan

Father City Hill Because Shining Shining City Dad

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack. Michael Shannon

Mother Think City Atlantic Blackjack She Theresa Start Playing

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012. Michael Tubbs

Me Made Important OK Run City City Council Something More Council Had Comfortable Than Person Being Decided Why

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. Michelle Obama

Home Me Mother Father Daughter Side City Brother Stayed Come South Chicago South Side Blue-Collar Worker Who Here Raised

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying. Michelle Paver

Myself Women Reality Job Men Lawyer Myth Sense Saw City Outnumbered Had Pushing Exciting Boundaries Female Doing Were Five Personal Just While Created Enjoying

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream. Michelle Visage

Broadway Dream City New Always York Moved New York New York City Actress

I'm becoming more and more of a backwoodsman. I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more, I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Just to sit and slow down a little bit. Michiel Huisman

Nature Slow Sit Down Enjoy Bit City Guy More More And More Always Becoming Just Being Little Little Bit Used Starting

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids. Mick Cornett

Great Sports Seen Healthy Community Kids Kind City Impact High-Profile Toward Role Role Models Models Social Your Team Who Professional Professional Sports Gravitate Images Brings

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.' Mick Cornett

You Problem Word Mouth Our Oklahoma Ourselves Out City Had Allowed Said Tragedies Branded Next Your Bombing Chances

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