Quotes About City

and the end of rational animals is to follow the reason and the law of the most ancient city and polity.

Si la ciudad se perjudica no hay que irritarse con quien la perjudica, por el contrario hay que señalarle qué es lo que le pasó desapercibido.

What is not harmful to the city does not harm the citizen either. Whenever you imagine you have been harmed, apply this criterion: if the city is not harmed by this, then I have not been harmed either. If on the other hand harm is done to the city, you should not be angry, but demonstrate to the doer of this harm what he has failed to see himself. p42

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city. Evil must be cleansed with blood, they say. On that day the blood ran like water, so afterwards it must have been very clean.

You have made your escape, your known addresses crumple in the wind, the city unfreezes with relief traffic shifts back to its routines, the swollen buildings return to normal, I walk believably from house to store, nothing remembers you but the bruises on my thighs and the inside of my skull.

hundreds of decorated automobiles and elaborate floats, one featuring a roaring lion, declawed for the occasion but symbolizing the fierce determined spirit of the city, was turned out for two hundred and fifty thousand gasping Angelenos thronged in the streets to marvel at in wondrous civic pride.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.