Top 100 Quotes About The City
#1. But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
Jack Kelley
#3. Little by little, the city falls away, like something giving up...
Harriet Lane
#4. Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.
Isaac Asimov
#5. I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.
Charlotte Eriksson
#6. I haven't been this high-functioning since last century." - Chief Morray, The City Center
Simone Pond
#7. For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Arthur Capper
#8. Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver knives into the body of the great dream that sprawled naked on the housetops. Sensual, amiable, and defenseless as it was, it would still take a little while to die.
Peter S. Beagle
#9. And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city
Haruki Murakami
#10. If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
#12. I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self
#13. The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.
Lucian Of Samosata
#14. King! Did you hear that? What did I say? The hands of a healer, I said.' And soon the word had gone out from the House that the king was indeed come among them, and after war he brought healing; and the news ran through the City.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Sri Aurobindo
#16. When I rule the city, the Supreme Grand Master said to himself, there is going to be none of this. I shall form a new secret society of keen-minded and intelligent men, although not too intelligent of course, not too intelligent.
Terry Pratchett
#17. I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.
Doug E. Fresh
#18. I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city.
The School Of Life
#19. I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.
Tommy Wiseau
#20. Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.
Edmund Morris
#21. Not the city light. We want -the moon-
The Moon none of our own doing!
-RAE ARMANTROUT
Rubin R. Naiman
#22. The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.
H.D.F. Kitto
#23. I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can ... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
#24. Through a veil of tears I watched the city get smaller and smaller. It was funny, because it sort of felt as if my heart was doing the same thing.
E.M. Denning
#25. I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.
Sylvia Plath
#26. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
Robert Lowell
#27. The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
Karen Kain
#28. Take care of it," he demanded of Shanti over his shoulder. "We don't need a bunch of dicks wagging around this city."
"You already have a bunch of dicks wagging around the city," Shanti yelled back. "They're the ones barking orders.
K.F. Breene
#29. I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
Rashid Johnson
#30. The city is full of terrible actors. That is what historians never say about Madras, it is filled with hams.
Manu Joseph
#31. But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.
Anthony Doerr
#32. I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.
Lilla Crawford
#33. At some point, they must do a 'Borgen' tour in Copenhagen. Like the 'Sex and the City' tour, but on bicycles.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#34. That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.
Robert Walser
#35. I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#36. She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
Piper Perabo
#37. Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
Blair Underwood
#38. The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
Joseph J. Lhota
#39. It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.
Sam Thompson
#40. Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
Bill Bryson
#41. I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.
Tom Bissell
#42. What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.
Malcolm X
#43. To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.
Louisa May Alcott
#44. The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#45. At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
Leon Askin
#46. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.
Margaret Kilgallen
#47. We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.
Cesar Millan
#48. One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.
Rostam Batmanglij
#50. The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.
Lewis Mumford
#51. I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.
Bobbi Brown
#52. The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.
Nelson Algren
#53. For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
Veronica Roth
#54. I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.
Arsenio Hall
#55. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#56. A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
John Bright
#57. I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
Paul Auster
#58. Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
#59. Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
Joel Sternfeld
#60. When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.
Evgeny Morozov
#61. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.
Mick Cornett
#62. Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch
#63. As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.
Jamie Bell
#64. My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.
Melanie Mayron
#65. I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
Halsey
#66. In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.
Howard Bloom
#67. The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I'm doomed always to feel, like the world's great damned men, that it's better to think than to live. 202
Fernando Pessoa
#68. Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
David Blunkett
#69. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios ... We were all in it together.
Charles Bukowski
#70. I don't want to trudge up insane mountains or through war-torn lands. Just a nice stroll through the hill and dale. But now I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see in a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory.
Maira Kalman
#71. Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city's present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.
Italo Calvino
#72. I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.
Jacob Aue Sobol
#73. My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
Rachel Sklar
#74. I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.
Wilford Woodruff
#75. When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.
Dennis Bergkamp
#76. A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
Mason Cooley
#77. Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
Willie Brown
#78. It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!
Arthur Guiterman
#79. THERE CAN BE FEW delights in the world as pleasant as a Siracusan spring. The fragrance of the lemon, orange, apricot, almond and peach blossoms pervade the city, enriched by the moist, salty sea breezes. On
Tariq Ali
#80. I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined ... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
John McEnroe
#82. My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#83. I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city ... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.
Katherine Mansfield
#84. In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.
Guru Gobind Singh
#85. The city of Los Angeles is now some twenty-four hundred miles south of central Alaska, and since it is moving slowly northward as the San Andreas fault slides irresistibly along, the city is destined eventually to become part of Alaska. If
James A. Michener
#86. He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis
#87. Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
Anatoly Karpov
#88. She'd been killed by her own personal assistant, news that Charlotte believed had come as a terrible shock to everyone in the city except the thousands of other personal assistants who dreamed, daily, of doing the same thing.
Brenda Cullerton
#89. The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.
Harlan Ellison
#90. What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician
these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
Polly Adler
#91. People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.
Garret Keizer
#92. I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.
Denis Kearney
#93. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Lafcadio Hearn
#94. There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
Herman Melville
#95. When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.
Pedro Winter
#96. The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.
Victoria Kahler
#97. Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream; the city had one of the lowest literacy rates in the country, and along with illiteracy went a lack of morals.
Stephen Leather
#98. She'd never forgotten their last night in Seoul, or above it in fact, surveying the city lights from atop Namsan Mountain.
Giacomo Lee
#100. We no longer live in that fabulous age when the sun, to whom we owe so much, was so generous that it halted its journey over Gibeon in order to give Joshua ample time to overcome the five kings besieging the city.
Jose Saramago
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