Ugly City Quotes

#1. I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

Kamila Shamsie

#2. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

John Steinbeck

#3. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Leon Krier

#4. 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

#5. the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water - are the Bible and prayer - the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.

John Newton

#6. The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

Benazir Bhutto

#7. Good organization," said Magnus. "I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family."
Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. "Did you sleep with him, too?"
Magnus's cat eyes widened. "Alexander!

Cassandra Clare

#8. The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

Vikas Swarup

#9. It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple ... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Addison Mizner

#10. Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

Pope Francis

#13. A lot of people say they want to leave this city to go somewhere else. Not me. I love this place for what it is. Ugly and pretty. Rough and tender. Chaotic and smooth. Loving and murderous. All of it.

Kwame Dawes

#14. I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

David Thewlis

#15. Cairo was, and remains, an ugly, cement-colored, park-free city, dotted with a few bewildering, mind-expanding splendors that make the whole place manic and magical. There was always noise, dirt, and exhaust, the honking of horns and the screeching of brakes. My

Richard Engel

#16. Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Cassandra Clare

#17. Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

Alfred Stieglitz

#18. I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

Jon M. Chu

#19. The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

Scott Westerfeld

#20. We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

Eva Herzigova

#21. Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. With relentless pursuit of success comes greatness.

Joshua Okello

#23. The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

John Lurie