The City Is Quotes

#1. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

#2. the city is cold and hard like that bike I stole from your front yard.

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#3. Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic ...

Charlotte Riddell

#4. The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Jaime Lerner

#5. New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

E.B. White

#6. Every Assassin knew that real black often stood out in the dark, because the night in the city is usually never full black, and that gray or dark green merge much better. But they wore black anyway, because style trumps utility every time.

Terry Pratchett

#7. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#8. The city is full of three types of people, the first being soldiers, the other classes are politicians and prostitutes, both very numerous, and about equal in honesty and morality.

Mark R. Jones

#9. I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

Greta Gerwig

#10. We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

Raf Simons

#11. Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

Wes Anderson

#12. The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Rem Koolhaas

#13. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#14. The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Josiah Strong

#15. There are reports that President Obama and his family may move to New York City after his term is over. Unfortunately, the city is so expensive, he's looking for another ex-president to be roommates with.

Jimmy Fallon

#16. One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

Aldo Rossi

#17. The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

John Gunther

#18. Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

Beck

#19. There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama ... and also, style.

Michael Patrick King

#20. I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

Darren Star

#21. Philly is a state of mind I'm always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it's served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

M. K. Asante

#22. We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it
-Onookome Okome

Mike Davis

#23. It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

Gayle Forman

#24. I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

Edward Ruscha

#25. The city is rather good-looking on Sunday morning from the L - (anytime, [if] you have eyes for it) - spread rather magnificently from the lake far to the west.

Joan Wehlen Morrison

#26. It's June and the city is ripe with meaningless fecal heat. It will be a different kind of hot in LA, the kind that made the Beach Boys all tan and giddy, a heat that doesn't harass you in the shade.

Caroline Kepnes

#27. Every inn in the city is full, and the whores are walking bowlegged and jingling with each step.

George R R Martin

#28. I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.

Kristin Hannah

#29. If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

Frederick Lenz

#30. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

David Harvey

#31. In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

Will Rogers

#32. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. And the war's begun. And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors.

Ray Bradbury

#33. 'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Michael Patrick King

#34. Sometimes I think the city is naturally conducive to coincidences in the same way that Plains states like Nebraska and Oklahoma are conducive to twisters, in the same way that mountain lakes are conducive to lightning.

Robert Sullivan

#35. I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

Julie McNiven

#36. The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

E.B. White

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Leon Battista Alberti

#40. 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

#41. The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

#42. The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

David Byrne

#43. No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

John Vinocur

#44. If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.

Marshall McLuhan

#45. I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#46. I love coming back into Chersonesus in the afternoon; the city is lit up by the sun beginning to set. The sound of the water rushing past the hull, and the sky is as blue as Helena's eyes."
"Did I hear a woman's name?

Destin Bays

#47. Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.

Lucy Foley

#48. You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.

Sasha Roiz

#49. The City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.

Toni Morrison

#50. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

Greta Gerwig

#51. THE CITY IS TOO REAL.

Patrick Bryant

#52. Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We're only as good as our last deal,

Derek L. Worthington

#53. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

Hernan Cortes

#54. You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

Chick Corea

#55. I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

Ken Bruen

#56. The city is not the problem; the city is the solution,

Jaime Lerner

#57. The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

Christina Stead

#58. the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature

Timothy J. Keller

#59. The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#60. The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

Baha'u'llah

#61. They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.

Helen Dunmore

#62. The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

John Lanchester

#63. Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

Christopher Bollen

#64. Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

Sunidhi Chauhan

#65. The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#66. The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

Geoffrey West

#67. The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

John F. Kennedy

#68. ISL is a tough place to crack they're the rich and we are the poor you can guarantee that the city is padded with security-" before Kosse could finish Ingra cut in "Yes we are aware of that but the reason we want your help is-

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#69. Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.

Susan Orlean

#70. Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

Rachel Maddow

#71. The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.

Joe Meno

#72. It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#73. The City is free of sin
The snow has given it absolution
A man who slips
A horse that falls
Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

Pierre Albert-Birot

#74. Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

Max Picard

#75. Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

Edward I. Koch

#77. The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

Guillermo Del Toro

#78. The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.
[ ... ]
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

Italo Calvino

#79. The city is a device for measuring time.

Don DeLillo

#80. The kind of support we have in Oklahoma City, it's the best in the NBA. Phenomenal. Beards in the crowd, the whole nine. The city is really something special.

James Harden

#81. The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.

Robert Frost

#82. I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

Stefon Harris

#83. One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.

Mark Noble

#84. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Desmond Morris

#85. The city is recruited from the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#86. I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

Ben Schott

#87. Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Jerry Rubin

#88. In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

Tom Peters

#89. One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

#90. The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

Kevin Garnett

#92. Of bones the city is made,
Plastered with flesh and blood,
Where decay and death are deposited,
And pride, and ingratitude.

Gautama Buddha

#93. The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

Margaret Mead

#94. By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

E.B. White

#95. The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.

Raymond Kelly

#96. The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.

Juliana Barbassa

#97. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.

Andrew Holleran

#98. The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin.

Jerry J.C. Veit

#99. Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

Miuccia Prada

#100. I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

Stone Gossard