Quotes About City

La griffe is the pattern of one's walk around the city on a shopping day. Strictly speaking, it means "claw," or the mark made by talons scratching a tree, but in practice it's one's signature, the mark that signifies ownership of a territory.

Say no to parking lots!

the Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

Around them, the city moved to its own hidden heartbeat, a rhythm that varied from hour to hour, tied to the movements of the individuals that inhabited it so that sometimes he found it hard to tell if the city dictated the lifestyles of its people, or the people influenced the life of the city.

I read somewhere that the New Orleans citizenry bought fewer copies of the New York Times than any other city in the United States, although they made up for it by buying more formal wear than anywhere else. If you're going out to formal dinners every evening, you don't get much time to read the New York Times.

I felt about the city as I felt about the house in Scarborough : it was a place where the past was alive in the present, where a man could find a place for himself as long as he understood the fact that he was a link in the chain, for a man cut off from his past was a man adrift in the present.

carried the smell of the streets with him.

Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

London, dirty little pool of life

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

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

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you should be fearless and go about your daily life.