Quotes About City

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

It's a big step, moving to a new city, especially a city as extreme as New York. It's not the same as London... I know, I nod. You have to get your nails done.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

New York 10022 October

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that ever Dawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes! Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's river Rising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat! - Chorus

But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time. Earth's might decays, the might of men decays, Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes, There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend, Or city and city; be it soon or late, Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.

Many years have passed since OEDIPUS solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended the throne of Thebes, and now a plague has struck the city.

My city too, not yours alone!

and now a plague has struck the city.

stillborn, and the plague, the fiery god of fever hurls down on the city, his lightning slashing through us— raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.

There is no rural life in a countryman's dream and there is no city life in a townsman's dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

As one who long in populous city pent.

Pandemonium, city and proud seatOf Lucifer.

Glorious things of thee are spoken,Zion, city of our God.

if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.

In Revelation 18:18 John refers to that "great city," rhetorically asking "was there ever a city like this great city?" Some have wondered why John didn't say "nation" or "country," instead of "city.