Quotes About City

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders:

Passers-by, Out of your many faces Flash memories to me Now at the day end Away from the sidewalks Where your shoe soles traveled And your voices rose and blent To form the city's afternoon roar Hindering an old silence.

8819Passers-by, Out of your many faces Flash memories to me Now at the day end Away from the sidewalks Where your shoe soles traveled And your voices rose and blent To form the city's afternoon roar Hindering an old silence.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Io, Bologna, non l'ho mai vista. Ma la conosco bene, anche se probabilmente è una città tutta mia. È una città grande: almeno tre ore.

Before we knew it, we were walking along the breakwater until the whole city, shining with silence, speak out at our feet like the greatest mirage in the universe, emerging from the pool of the harbor waters. We sat on the edge of the jetty to gaze at the sight. This city is a sorceress, you know, Daniel? It gets under your skin and steals your soul without you knowing it.

That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.

listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

where tourists and people from the city came in search of sand, sun and expensive forms of boredome.

My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my sanctuary, my refuge.

?itava se Barcelona prostirala meni pod nogama i želio sam vjerovati da ?e mi kad otvorim te svoje nove prozore njezine ulice u sumrak šaputati na uho pri?e i tajne kako bih ih uhvatio na papir i ispri?ao onima koji ih žele slušati.

Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the Rose of Fire.

sólo era alguien en el mundo invisible de la ciudad de los pobres y los intocables. Hay épocas y lugares en los que no ser nadie es más honorable que ser alguien. El prisionero del cielo

Jacinta knew from the start that this city was a woman, cruel and vain; she learned to fear her and never look her in the eye.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

París es la única ciudad del mundo donde morirse de hambre todavía es considerado un arte.

Esta ciudad es bruja, sabe Usted, Daniel? Se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba el alma sin que uno se dé ni cuenta.

El espectro de asesinatos, luchas y conspiraciones llevaba años corroyendo el alma de la ciudad, pero aun así, muchos querían creer que la guerra seguía lejos, que era un temporal que pasaría de largo.

la historia había reservado los altares y las estampitas para san Jorge, pero al dragón le había tocado la ciudad de Barcelona en perpetuidad

One by one the lights of the city went out, and I realized that I had already begun to remember.

El cielo se apagaba sobre la ciudad con nubes en tránsito.