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Quotes About City

I've lived in New York for a really long time.
~ Famke Janssen
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.
~ Gertrude Stein
I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.
~ Gillian Jacobs
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city
~ Haruki Murakami
I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.
~ Hillary Clinton
Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city
~ Ilya Kaminsky
Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.
~ Jackie Gayle
I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
~ Jessica Chastain
Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!
~ John Burgon
I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.
~ John Cale
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
~ Douglas Coupland
In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.
~ John Bytheway
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
~ William H. Whyte
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
~ Johnny Carson
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
~ Thomas Menino
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
~ Jaime Lerner
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
~ Cesar Pelli
And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
~ Mary Balogh
I've been spending my life among flyspecks... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 4th and Fairfax
~ Mary Chase
His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
~ Mary Doria Russell
That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, "I never meant to be a lawman. Stumbled into it, really. When I quit, it was a weight off." Dealing
~ Mary Doria Russell
Tenzij u iets beters weet, dottore, stel ik voor dat we dit verderfelijke moeras optillen en als een natte doek over het centrum van de stad leggen.' 'Geheel en al wat ook ikzelve vind!' zei de geleerde. Matt was bijna hysterisch van vermoeidheid. Strak plan,' zei hij. 'Doen we even. Koud kunstje.
~ Mary Hoffman
A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.
~ Mary Karr