George VI Quotes

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

The people are the city.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

Cities are immortal.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.

Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world, but it is the people of Hong Kong, standing up for their city on the streets, who make it truly great.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

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

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

The only city people are those born so.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things happen of that nature, some people become immobilized and other people begin to find solutions. And Detroit is the kind of city where we begin to find solutions.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.