Quotes About Leaving A City

#1. Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Ahmed Mostafa

#2. There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

Marion D. Hanks

#3. And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. I can't take it y'all
I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

Mos Def

#6. All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

Marat Safin

#7. History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.

Stacy Schiff

#8. leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express). She

Stephen King

#9. Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

John Kennedy Toole

#10. When the time came for us to leave Benin City, his library was one of the things I felt bad about leaving.

Osisiye Tafa

#11. If I look back when I begin to leave, will they remember me?

Owl City

#12. The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.

Helene Wecker

#13. Placing one last kiss over her heart, he lifted his head to find her staring at him with The Look - the one that told a guy when a woman was leaving Let's Screw For Fun City and headed straight for Let's Pick Out China Town - written all over her pretty face.

Gina L. Maxwell

#14. Not long ago, the city patrols would have arrested him on sight. Now, he's leaving the Republic as their champion, to be celebrated and remembered for a lifetime.

Marie Lu

#15. That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Natalie Goldberg

#16. When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

Rodney Dangerfield

#17. We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

Pete Wentz

#18. Many already leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express

Stephen King

#19. Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

Sara Miles

#20. The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

Mitch Landrieu

#21. We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!

David Berg

#22. Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

Sam Childers

#23. We have to go," Tris says, and I know she's not talking about leaving Michigan Avenue or taking Edward to the hospital; she's talking about the city. "We have to go," I repeat.

Veronica Roth

#24. I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

Cecily McMillan

#25. My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Paul Theroux

#26. If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Asne Seierstad

#27. It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Old City, leaving no room for even simple things like politeness and common courtesy. There was no love in the city of God.

Jared Brock

#28. The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Noam Chomsky

#29. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Tayari Jones

#30. The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Drew Carey

#31. The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.
That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

Daniel Alarcon

#32. There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.

Charlotte Eriksson

#33. If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

John Ortberg

#34. He said that every day without a fail when he commuted on the packed buses he saw city garbage trucks leaving on their rounds several at a time. Shin-ae understands what her husband is saying. She wonders how many souls a day are loaded into those garbage trucks and then disposed of. (Cho 2006: 16)

Cho Se-Hui

#35. Baltimore always seems like the kind of city you either leaving or just returning to. Ain't no kinda place to hang your hat. Even as a kid I dreamed of getting out.

Esi Edugyan

#36. If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

Kim Gordon

#37. The living are just the dead on holiday

Maurice Maeterlinck