Quotes About Metropolis

Gray feels like the city.

Chicago is a great city.

We need to keep telling people that London is great place to buy and to shop.

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

A metrópole é a sede desta cultura, que eliminou todas as características da pessoa

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.

Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London is the cultural metropolis of the early 21st century.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.

I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

As one who long in populous city pent.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

Later on I would think of America as one vast city of night.-John Rechy, City of Night

Mexico City's reputation as Murder City South has endured down the centuries. Between 1860 and 1875, the Mexican capital was billed as the most dangerous metropolis on the planet.

It isn't like the rest of the country — it is like a nation itself — more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

Me había quedado sola en la ciudad y preferí luchar a la intemperie contra la célebre soledad que azota al alma humana en las grandes urbes.

These were the moments that defined the city. They were the waking dreams of a never sleeping metropolis.

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.