- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
City Quotes
Every city leaves its own kind of mark.
Several of these quotes settle on New York specifically - raising children there, chasing a ballet career through its top companies, or building a life around it after moving from elsewhere. Others reflect on falling in love with a campus city the way you'd love Paris. See Cities Quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at Villa and I was captain there and I had the opportunity to go to City, it played on my mind I wouldn't be as pivotal. So initially I didn't want to go, but a lot of things happened behind the scenes and I realised I had to go.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd be playing 60 games a season for City, I knew I would be playing half of that if I was lucky. I knew at a club with that much power and resources there would always be a flood of players into the team.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before signing with Liverpool, I talked to Roberto Firmino about what the club is like and what the city is like. He spoke well of the club and the city and other people who have already visited the city. The information only gave me more motivation to come to Liverpool.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Napoli fans saw themselves in me. I knew I was not alone when entering the pitch, but I was there with a whole city.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
- Treat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the book 'Devil in the White City.'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020