Quotes About City

To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta

Se non c'è amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle città

Pareva che la città covasse nelle viscere una furia che non riusciva a venir fuori e perciò la erodeva, o erompeva in pustole di superficie, gonfie di veleno contro tutti, bambini, adulti, vecchi, gente di altre città, americani della Nato, turisti d'ogni nazionalità, gli stessi napoletani.

To be born in that city—I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila's pessimism—is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta' ". Non mi ricordo come si espresse di preciso, ma il concetto era quello, e io lo associai alle nostre strade sporche, ai giardinetti polverosi, alla campagna scempiata dai palazzi nuovi, alla violenza in ogni casa, in ogni famiglia.

Ah, there is no city that gives off so much noise and such a clamor as Naples.

Los empleados municipales lavan la sangre en la Plaza de los Sacrificios. • Octavio Paz

In this city of unsimilars I give my body to science and mosquitoes, but I still want to live in it despite carhorns & reckless poverty, all forms of carbon copies, hard-ons, declining trees & me & my organs to you, Carlotta

I ended up taking a literature class, too, about the nineteenth-century novel and the city in Russia, England, and France. The professor often talked about the inadequacy of published translations, reading us passages from novels in French and Russian, to show how bad the translations were. I didn't understand anything he said in French or Russian, so I preferred the translations.

I ended up taking a literature class, too, about the nineteenth-century novel and the city in Russia, England, and France. The professor often talked about the inadequacy of published translations, reading us passages from novels in French and Russian, to show how bad the translations were. I didn't understand anything he said in French or Russian, so I preferred the translations.

We glided into Budapest at twilight, the city poured over with a viscous glowing blue, lights already blazing on the splendid Western bridges. Upside-down electronic billboards were reflected in the river, advertising Tuborg beer and Minolta cameras.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

Huye de la ciudad... Pobres maldades, misérrimas virtudes y quehaceres de chulos aburridos, y ruindades de ociosos mercaderes.

Me he instalado en esta ciudad para esperar en ella el fin del mundo.

En la memoria y en los ojos de alguien están ahora mismo las imágenes indelebles del crimen, unos ojos que en este mismo instante miran algún lugar de la ciudad, normales, serenos, tal vez, como los ojos de cualquiera.

Switching over from the usage of car and motorbike to bicycle for daily commuting within the city is only a befitting reply to the artificial fuel price hike happening regularly.

The construction of an ultra-mega kitchen that provides affordable & delectable food for the population in every city & town seems to be a sound proposition to take care of economic situation of the nation.

In Disney, the working class has therefore been split into two groups: criminals in the city, and noble savages in the countryside.

The advantageous situation of the capital and of the territory is necessarily a part of the common stock; and all men who inhabit the same city and country must breathe the same air, and enjoy the same climate.

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.