Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

Sheffield has everything as far as I'm concerned and the football club is right in the heart of it.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

New York is the last true city.

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

New York is the only real city-city.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

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

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

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

If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it's Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It's where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.

I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

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

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

The people are the city.