Cities Quotes

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

I like the rough impersonality of New York … Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.

We’re all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

New York City is my playground.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.