Quotes About City

Así habían empezado a andar por un París fabuloso, dejándose llevar por los signos de la noche,....deteniéndose en las placitas confidenciales para besarse en los bancos o mirar las rayuelas, los ritos infantiles del guijarro y el salto sobre un pie para entrar en el Cielo.

Aunque tal vez tuera yo el que la veía así, añorante de aquella estación de ciudad provinciana y tranquila a la que llegué un buen día decidido a iniciar mi carrera como periodista.

Fui tan feliz en aquella ciudad que, cuando me acordaba de ella, la mitificaba como los emigrantes hacen con sus países.

El tiempo había pasado a toda velocidad. Y había dejado su huella en nosotros pero también en la ciudad que tanto disfrutamos y vivimos cuando la juventud corría por nuestras venas y nuestras Ilusiones estaban intactas.

contemplé la ciudad abajo, una geometría cubista reverberante bajo el sol de julio. Parecía como si la ciudad entera fuera un reflejo de la que fue y que tanto me costaba reconocer.

They sounded a lot like me and my old girlfriend Loretta, but I swore to myself that I would stop thinking about her ass, even though every Cleopatra-looking Latina in the city made me stop and wish she would come back to me.

The day is the color of pigeons.

where you'd parked your Civic.

The lights were coming on and I was looking over this panoramic view, thinking, 'My God, this is the most beautiful city I've ever seen,' and I've traveled all over the world.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

She thought she'd hate it, this huge, faceless city far from home, but the opposite was true: she felt nothing but relief. The heedless sprawl of Denver, its chaotic snarl of subdivisions and freeways; the openness of the high plains and the indifferent mountains; the way people talked to each other, easily, without pretense, and the fact that nearly everyone was from somewhere else: exiles, like her.

Now it is dark. Stars soar above the vacant city, heaven's diadem. A century since the last person walked here, and still one cannot travel its streets, as I do, without seeing one's face reflected a thousand-fold.

In 1828 Broadway, the city's spinal thoroughfare, ended at Tenth Street, according to the grid plan for the city streets. Forty years later Broadway extended northward to 155th Street and beyond that into the Bronx. Only the three rivers that enclosed Manhattan could limit its horizontal growth.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.

Die Alarmsirenen waren die neuen Stimmen der Stadt.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it's still aesthetically traumatic, but it's got spirit.

It hits you in unexpected moments, this city's romance; everywhere, air pockets of loveliness just when your lungs can't take any more congestion or pollution or stifling newspaper headlines.

London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.