Quotes About City Hall

#1. Couldn't miss my baby girl's wedding. Before you go meet Derek, can you do me a favor first? I have an important package that needs to be signed for and I have to run to the City Hall for a meeting. Would you wait for it before you go? Derek didn't have a cell phone, and she couldn't reach

Melody Anne

#2. 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?

Laura Miller

#3. You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

George Carlin

#4. You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

Jack Kerouac

#5. They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.

Libba Bray

#6. Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

Laura Miller

#7. Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Mother Jones

#8. Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

Derek R. Audette

#9. The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Gray

#10. He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.

Mike Royko

#11. Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance, with its golden reflection extending to the river water. Strange that I hadn't seen that before.

Patricia Mason

#12. There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

Laura Miller

#13. Government reporters may cover City Hall. Education reporters may write about schools and school boards. Science writers may report on asteroids one day, HIV vaccine experiments the next, sonar technology the next, a universe without boundaries.

Deborah Blum

#14. Do you think city hall would take battling dragons as a excuse to waive a fine?

Sharon Ashwood

#15. Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Steve Chabot

#16. You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.

Ann Robinson

#17. And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

Laura Miller

#18. It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

Jim Parsons

#19. The youth were to be trained to be the vanguard of the next battlefront, whatever that was. I knew within my heart that the Gibson experiment in city hall would attract enemies, so I intended to teach these young people how to fight on this new battlefield.

Junius Williams

#20. First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

Julian Castro

#21. In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money ... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Laura Miller

#22. You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

#23. People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

Christine Quinn

#24. The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Mike Royko

#25. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Sam Donaldson

#26. Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods ... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

Laura Miller

#27. 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.

Carl Stokes

#28. Eddie remembered the punchline of an old New York joke: "Pardon me, sir, can you tell me how to get to City Hall, or should I just go fuck myself?

Stephen King

#29. Revolution or not, the working class will keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall.

Haruki Murakami

#30. From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares ... yes ... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

Laura Miller

#31. If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

Julian Bond

#32. I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

Denis Kearney

#33. But let me tell you something, Harrigan - sooner or later City Hall is gonna catch up to your action, and they're gonna render unto your scofflaw holy-rollin' ass. I only hope I'm there when it happens

Stephen King

#34. That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Tony Campolo

#35. Never take an elevator in city hall.

Harvey Milk

#36. In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Laura Miller

#37. There was really nothing pressing for me to do beyond pouring bubble bath in the fountain at City Hall.

Debra Dunbar

#38. From Joan Baez at Town Hall in New York City, on her 50th Anniversary Tour as a performer. "People always ask me about my voice. I tell them, 'The gift is from God. My job is just maintenance and delivery.

Terry Brennan

#39. that the city be governed by a choice of respectable members of the community who would promise not to give themselves airs or betray the public trust at every turn, was instantly the subject of music-hall jokes all over the city.

Terry Pratchett

#40. When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

John Williams

#41. You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

Gary David Goldberg

#42. Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

Vanessa Carlton

#43. Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.

Christy Hall

#44. If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would ... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

Dante Hall

#45. Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

Parnell Hall

#46. I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#47. I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Dave Foley

#48. There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Zubin Mehta

#49. The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

Zubin Mehta

#50. Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

Sarah Hall

#51. My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Questlove

#52. I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

Arsenio Hall

#53. Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

Christy Hall

#54. I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Steven Hall

#55. I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Anthony Michael Hall

#56. The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Daryl Hall

#57. While to a certain extent Milton is right-the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hall and so forth-it is nonetheless clear that Plano was modeled less on Paradise than that other, more dolorous city.

Donna Tartt

#58. For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

Bryn Terfel

#59. My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

Sirio Maccioni

#60. know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall.

Pete Hamill

#61. 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.

Robert Osborne

#62. Around us the city glittered in shades of orange and silver, like a paste jewel in a tinfoil crown.

Alexis Hall

#63. The Dream is the city, and if we find it's heart in the Dream, then we find it's heart in the world.

Alexis Hall

#64. He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfasts
in the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that will
come to find us soon, if we don't find it first.

Veronica Roth

#65. 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.

Regina Hall

#66. Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City ...

Christy Hall

#67. I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

Ryan Hall