People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

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