Quotes About Metropolis

And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth...

She knew there was a big Chicago far off, where all the trains ran.

Quella che lei chiama Bologna, è un cosa grande, che va da Parma fino a Cattolica [...] dove davvero la gente vive a Modena, lavora a Bologna e la sera va a ballare a Rimini [...] è una strana metropoli [...] che s'allarga a macchia d'olio tra il mare e gli Appennini.

El cielo se apagaba sobre la ciudad con nubes en tránsito.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

Entre la rencontre obligatoire du village (l'horreur) et l'anonymat total des mégapoles (l'enfer), Paris est la ville aux proportions justes.

Christian Europe was always death, Karl, death and repression. Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts. . . . No word ever gets back. The silences down here are vast enough to absorb all behavior, no matter how dirty, how animal it gets.

We can devolve to develop smaller, or even rural, communities that are just as plugged in as living in the heart of a great metropolis.

The only city people are those born so.

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

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

The people are the city.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

The ban against tall buildings was finally lifted in 1957. Nothing much happened at first; downtown remained stunted compared to most other cities of its size. As developer Robert Maguire put it, Los Angeles seemed destined to be a city "just ten stories high, all over hell and gone.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

I do find myself missing the energy of New York more and more often as my time away from the city progresses.

Obviously I'm missing the city life.

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.