Top 100 This City Quotes
#1. We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
Michael Nutter
#2. This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves,
No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
Eyedea
#3. I ask, "You think you'd ever forget it entirely? Your world?" "I don't know. I could see it getting to the point where it didn't feel real anymore. Because it isn't. The only thing that's real in this moment is this city. This room. This bed. You and me." -
Blake Crouch
#4. I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
Robert Kennedy
#5. I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.
Anne Rice
#6. This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
Alan Moore
#7. The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.
Veronique Vienne
#8. If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.
Scott Lynch
#9. She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
Terry Brooks
#10. When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.
Doug Collins
#11. I swear to God, the sups in this city could have their own reality show.
Chloe Neill
#12. If you've been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city's traffic.
John Oliver
#13. I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.
Rudy Giuliani
#14. Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.
Ryan Kelly
#15. I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
Warren Christopher
#16. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
Stephanie Danler
#19. She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed
at the puckered hem of granite
gray sweatpants, and she also knew
I was watching from the open door
of the B train - watching her pose
in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare.
Kristen Henderson
#20. The empire took Rhenydd through deceit, murder, and trickery. I don't speak treason. I speak loyalty- loyalty to the monarchy. To sit by and let the empire rape this kingdom and burn this city is treason and, what's more, it's foolhardy cowardice!
Michael J. Sullivan
#21. How cold and foreign this city seemed, that even death could pass unnoticed.
Kristen Simmons
#22. Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
Li Bingbing
#23. Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Harold Washington
#24. I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
Vicente Fox
#25. I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it's such an exciting place.
Martin Scorsese
#26. Everlasting bonds of the women of this family. It served to remind us of why we'd flocked back to this city. I always appreciated the time set aside to remember just how much we needed each
A.L. Jackson
#27. I've found that here in this city, the lights burn ever brighter, but they cast the darkest shadows I know.
Leslie Parry
#28. I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.
Moon Unit Zappa
#29. His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
Mary Doria Russell
#30. Walking through Harlem first thing in the morning was like being a single drop of blood inside an enormous body that was waking up. Brick and mortar, elevated train tracks, and miles of underground pipe, this city lived; day and night it thrived.
Victor LaValle
#31. You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted with was an illusion: you had filled those moments with sensations all the more powerful in that nothing and no one had distracted you from them.
Edouard Leve
#32. It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
Ray Nagin
#33. This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Bill Shankly
#34. For all its faults we love this city.' Then, after a pause, she added: 'After all, we built it.
William Dalrymple
#35. There are some beliefs and places in this city that are incomprehensible to some-hell-to most, and it's best to leave them alone.
Sandy DeLuca
#37. It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.
Pat Cash
#38. The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.
Jakob Bohme
#39. Murderer or bartender or writer, it didn't matter: his fate was the common fate of all, his finish my finish; and here tonight in this city of darkened windows were other millions like him and like me: as indistinguishable as dying blades of grass. Living was hard enough. Dying was a supreme task.
John Fante
#41. The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
Deborah Kerr
#42. I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.
Patrick Ewing
#43. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#44. Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.
Robert Cormier
#45. Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'...In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.
Ann Howard Creel
#46. Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.
Daria Snadowsky
#47. The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#49. This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.
LeBron James
#50. If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
Noel Gallagher
#51. Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
Jane Byrne
#52. Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#53. I didn't see eye to eye with young Barry Bingham," the publisher, Hollenbach says. "I told him respectfully that I didn't think there was anything wrong with this city that a handful of well-placed funerals wouldn't cure.")
Alec Macgillis
#54. There isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
Patricia Briggs
#55. The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#56. Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
Barry McGee
#57. Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.
Jessie Burton
#58. I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.
Dan Simmons
#59. I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
Bret Easton Ellis
#60. If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Jane Byrne
#61. This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
William Wordsworth
#62. In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense!
-Judge Dredd
John Wagner
#63. When you see that earthly powers are not listening to you, that you are under siege in this city for four years and shot at without the international community doing anything to help, what should you do? Die?' he asked me in the course of our conversation. 'No, you pray to Heaven for help.
Kristiane Backer
#64. Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.
Edmondo De Amicis
#65. Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.
'Die, bastards.'
She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die.
Kresley Cole
#66. There is a river running through this city and every time my best friend laughs I want to grab him by the shoulders and shout Grow old with me and never kiss me on the mouth! I want to spend the next eighty years together, eating Doritos and riding bikes.
Clementine Von Radics
#67. Because, man, if this city ain't Caleb's mountain, I don't know what is, and those giants out there are just stomping people into the ground.
Richard Price
#68. Take care of it," he demanded of Shanti over his shoulder. "We don't need a bunch of dicks wagging around this city."
"You already have a bunch of dicks wagging around the city," Shanti yelled back. "They're the ones barking orders.
K.F. Breene
#69. You and this city helped wake me up - helped bring me back to life." His eyes flickered as I smiled up at him. "I will fight with everything I have, too, Rhys. Everything." He
Sarah J. Maas
#70. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
#71. You've been busy matchmaking everyone in this city ... and beyond." Gerri winked. "Careful, before I set my sights on you.
Milly Taiden
#72. This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.
Carrie Vaughn
#73. I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.
Ned Vizzini
#74. You want to neuter us," Director Tagg said. "Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city."
"As my client put it, Director, we're hoping to free you to focus your efforts on real targets.
Wildbow
#75. I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed to me that once you happened upon magical places you should stay there, happily ever after.
Megan Crane
#76. As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.
Frank Hague
#77. Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
Golda Meir
#78. Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.
Elif Shafak
#79. We don't want your kind in this city.
Take your pack of animals and go back to where you came from.
Mark my words
if you open this club, it will be the last thing you ever do.
Blood will run.
Sara Humphreys
#80. t know why I can't stop being so combative. "Come on. People don't get butchered in this city every day. And the very night after I free the most powerful murderous ghost in the western hemisphere, somebody shows up missing
Kendare Blake
#81. Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.
Sara Raasch
#82. If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children in the Balkans into an animated musical about a tribe of pixie-sized fairy-dust-loving flamenco dancers who live happily ever after with their dancing bears.
Annie Ward
#83. ...showing us the role of this city and that mountain, for places loom larger than people.
Rebecca Solnit
#84. There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah
#85. This City is what it is because are citizens are what they are " -Plato
Red Wemette
#86. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
Toni Morrison
#87. Even through the smoke,
you are still the most beautiful thing
in this city and I, well, I am still
the last thing you'd save in a fire.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#88. A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you're high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.
Annalee Newitz
#89. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#90. Yeah, yeah," Wayne said. "That too. But if I could get everybody drunk, think how much happier this city would be." "So long as you get me drunk first, I'd be fine with it." She held out her cup to him. "Top a lady off, will you?
Brandon Sanderson
#91. In this city [Palermo] ... it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children ... We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.
Gianni Riotta
#92. They have little in common, save for their geography, and the fact that each has a version of this city straddling this river on this island country, and in each, that city is called London.
Victoria Schwab
#93. In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.
Christos Tsiolkas
#94. The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson
#95. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.
Wildbow
#96. I knew this city like a lover, and she'd whisper her secrets to me.
C.D. Reiss
#97. I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
Jeffrey Archer
#98. Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Kahlil Gibran
#99. I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.
Nick Bantock
#100. Paris is a heaven for all woman's obssesions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.
Kirsten Lobe
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