2382 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. Wendell Pierce

News Police Saw City Gear Riot Windows Faces Small Boston Schools Frightened Screaming Buses Dad Watched

New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world. Wendy Long

Change World Financial Think Hong Kong Jobs City London Instead New Geneva Dodd-Frank Kong York Send Going New York New York City Center Capital Act Keeping Sydney

In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies. Wes Craven

School Job Made College Nothing Publish Humanities City Written New Messenger Got Trying York Graduate Graduate School Moved New York New York City Happening Upstate Upstate New York Place Movies Teaching Novel

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man. Wes Montgomery

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Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church. Wesley Clark

Nice is a very beautiful city, but I came only for the sport. Wesley Sneijder

Beautiful Nice City Only Beautiful City Sport Came Very

I kind of have an allegiance to the city, but I don't love Brooklyn. Weyes Blood

Love Kind City Brooklyn Allegiance

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. Whitfield Diffie

Love Tremendously France Berkeley City Paris New Liked Came South Leftist Very Campus York New York To Love Much

A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it. Will McCormack

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I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. Will Oldham

Sometimes Mind Few Cities City Pretty Through Like Hours Passing Going Maybe Being Them Much Even

I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all. Will Poulter

Wilderness Out City Countryside Boy Am Very Get Much Really

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it. Will Self

Work People Better Some People Depend Mine Worse City London Some Feel Towards Come Ambivalence Human Utterly Muses Startling

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. William Gibson

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. William Shatner

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say. Willie Garson

Strong Sex Say Sex And The City City Could Had Very Orders Gag

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that. Willie McCovey

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed. Willis Polk

City No Limit Limit Fixed Planning

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city. Wole Soyinka

Maritime City Childhood

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. Wolfgang Puck

Home You Example Big Pool Live Swimming Everything City Minutes Feel Like Countryside For Example Big City Five Swimming Pool

Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you? Yance Ford

Family You Black City Lifestyle Most Protect Because Does South Families Children Wanted Suburban Suburbs Mean Realization Actually

I like doing business in a black city. Yaphet Kotto

Business Black City Like Doing

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great. Yaya Toure

Work Good Day Great You Money Spend Way One Day Bad City Football Come Make Him Himself Prove Lot Friends Very Manchester Want After Next Hard Help Works Player

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