Quotes About City

A strange twilight strangled the city's voice to desperate murmurs as every foot paused, every voice hushed, every eye lifted and quickly fell again, unable to bear the light of even a half-occluded sun.

She wore no iron rings; the city itself pained her.

In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

has proved to be true. You have a first city as you have a first lover, and this was mine.

Wandering down the street in an aimless sort of way, cold too, in a dress from last night that made young men stop and stare in the street, Charity Hill found herself hating the single life for the very first time.

He is disgusted not only by the whores of his city but also by the "wicked" sexuality of women in general.

They--the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too--might have dreamed of a different life in a private home, beloved and displayed and well dressed and only occasionally, dreamily read, but they belonged to the city now and had to work for the common good.

Veblen espoused the Veblenian opinion that wanting a big house full of cheaply produced versions of so-called luxury items was teh greatest soul-sucking trap of modern civilization, and that these copycat mansions away from the heart and soul of a city had ensnared their overmortgaged owners - yes, trapped and relocated them like pests.

Alexander was laid in state in the city he had founded. A previous imperial visit had not been a complete success; Augustus, passing his hands over the inspirational features of the conqueror's corpse, broke off his nose. Whether it was repaired or the emperor removed it as a relic is unrecorded.

I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

I was standing one day on the front stoop, and as he came out of the building I said, "Jeremy, sometimes when I stand here, I can't believe Im really in New York City. I stand here and think, Whoever would have guessed? Me! I'm living in the City of New York!" And a look went across his face--so fast, so involuntary--that was a look of real distaste. I had not yet learned the depth of disgust city people feel for the truly provincial.

He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them. Whatever darkness leaked its way in, there were always lights on in different windows here, each light like a gentle touch on his shoulder saying, Whatever is happening, Bob Burgess, you are never alone.

In this city of New York, I see children crying from tiredness, which is real, and sometimes from just crabbiness, which is real. But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make... I have left the subway car I was riding in so i did not have to hear a child crying that way.

he had thought more and more how provincial New Yorkers were, and how they didn't know it.

Al ver Nueva York por la ventanilla, sentí lo que he sentido casi siempre cuando vuelvo a Nueva York en avión: asombro y gratitud a esta inmensa ciudad por haberme acogido, por haberme permitido vivir en ella.

No other ancient city demonstrated so powerfully Aristotle's assertion that "a difference of capacities among its members enables them to attain a higher and better life by the mutual exchange of their different services." From that point of view alone, Alexandria was already Aristotle's city.

In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.

En aquella ciudad, donde a menudo lo ilegal es convención social y forma de vida --es herencia de familia, dice un corrido famoso, trabajar contra la ley--, Teresa Mendoza fue durante algún tiempo una de esas jóvenes, hasta que cierta ranchera Bronco negra se detuvo a su lado, y Raimundo Dávila Parra bajó el cristal tintado de la ventanilla y se la quedo mirando desde el asiento del conductor. (p. 26 en LA REINA DEL SUR)

a unas calles bajas de esta ciudad donde lo fastuoso de la urbe se entenebrece ante la sordidez de la vida de los más desfavorecidos, donde toda necesidad tiene su ejemplo y todo vicio su triste manifestación.

Había una luna terciada, decreciente, que esmerilaba el mar negro y plateado frente a la playa, entre los destellos del faro situado a la derecha y la parte alta de la ciudad vieja, débilmente iluminada, a la izquierda.

The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.