The City Quotes
But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-
Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.
Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.
You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.
I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.
I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.
People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.
People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.
I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.
People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.
I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.
New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.
I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.