The City Quotes
I think no matter where you go, you'll be happy as long as you know why you're there.
We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.
For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.
This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.
There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld c
I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.
Is your life really so bad? This city is full of opportunities –”“Can you call it a city?” Marcus asked. “No gymnasium, no theatre, no forum? Where is the life a Roman man should lead?
Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in it's soul and personality. Every corner in this city giving you full of surprises, if not every hour but at least every day….
An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation
He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.
The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments
You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.
The City is free of sinThe snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that fallsOh no, the city is in a nightgown
I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.
Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stationsWe crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")
You know, " he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.
This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.
I know the consequences, Manon, ” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.
I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and hard-working, and they're loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.
I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.
On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner, ' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.
'In My City' was my first single. It has a very special place in my heart, and I am beyond excited to bring the amazing energy of the track to the NFL's passionate fans.
Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.
It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.
I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live there's a different energy about living in the city.