Quotes About Leaving The City

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Angua sighed and stepped into the room behind the little museum. It was like the back rooms of museums everywhere, full of junk and things there is no room for on the shelves and also items of doubtful provenance, such as coins dated '52 BC'.

Terry Pratchett

#5. 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

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

Kim Gordon

#7. Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

Marjorie Fleming

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

Owl City

#9. In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Marat Safin

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

Stephen King

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

John Kennedy Toole

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

Osisiye Tafa

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Stephen King

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

Sara Miles

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

Chad Coleman

#28. 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

#29. Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

Totaram Sanadhya

#30. Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Al-Ghazali

#31. The physical effects of alcohol are often one of the least rewarding parts of drinking for addicts.

Charles Duhigg

#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. 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

#34. When PC subverts The Good and instead promotes Vice, Lies, and Ugliness this is self-perceived as merely humble experiments in pursuit of the Better.

Bruce G. Charlton

#35. The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles

#39. On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

Julien Gracq

#40. 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