Quotes About Metropolis

Chicago is a pocket edition of hell," he wrote, "and if it is not, then hell is a pocket edition of Chicago.

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

London, dirty little pool of life

Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon." "Find out what?" "That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.

Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, in science, in economic development, in the kindness of nature, in history that leads of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, most clearly and far in advance, to be completely without foundation.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

la monstruosa, la tormentosa, la irresistible capital del cheque. Rodeada de islas menores, tiene cerca a Jersey; y agarrada a Brooklyn

She didn't really know London, only lived in it.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

In the meantime, his majesty, who has lived in dignified retirement since he came to the throne, has taken up his abode, with rural felicity, in a cottage in Windsor Forest; where he now, contemning all the pomp and follies of his youth, and this metropolis, passes his days amidst his cabbages, like Dioclesian, with innocence and tranquility, far from the intrigues of courtiers, and insensible to the murmering waves of the fluctuating populace...

careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

During the reign of the Ptolemies the powerful Egyptian priests were indulged with elaborate temples, but the Greeks also introduced their own cultural spirit and under their aegis fine cities and seats of art and learning had been established. Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, was in the first century, in its amalgam of cultures, a more elegant, civilised and learned metropolis than Rome could conceivably hope to be.