Quotes About Metropolis

Regional interests and loyalties are even stronger among Australians than among Americans - in that in social life they exist almost without challenge. Canberra is a poor thing compared to Washington and there is no great metropolis like New York that sets many of the nation's trends. There is no generally acknowledged central city where the important things are believed to happen and it seems better to be.

How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Nobody who had not lived there would ever understand that London was a country unto itself. They

the deathless breath of the city.

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

soon to be eclipsed by New York.

Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51

Through the window I saw buildings the size of dollhouses, cars that crawled like ants.

A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

The City means everything to me while for it I am only its citizen!

Philadelphia was then the largest city in North America, with nearly 51,000 inhabitants

one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.

I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it's a place where I'd never fancy living - too busy, too lively, people on top of you.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Walking around town and driving around London - it's like a fashion show on every corner.

I would like to live in New York - it is my favourite city; I love it.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.