Quotes About City

Why him?" he growled. "Of all the men you could have, why would you hire him for that?" "Because he has the best equipment in the city and he knows how to use it!" As soon as I said it, I realized how he would take it. The beginnings of another thundering roar died in Curran's throat. He stared at me, mute.

We are going to war, my daughter. I love you very much, my Blossom." "I love you too, Father." We sat together and looked at the city until finally he rose, drew his cloak over his head, and left, melting into the traffic. Erra appeared next to me, her form so thin it was a mere shadow. "Good-bye, brother," she whispered.

I have to convince a paranoid man prone to spree-killing and snap judgements that someone isn't a threat." "He's right to be paranoid. This is a city of fools, incompetents, and madmen. I haven't felt this young in centuries.

Uh-oh. In all the time I'd interacted with Ghastek, he never swore. Ever. The "premier" Master of the Dead was about to throw a tantrum. I braced myself. "He comes into the city, he throws away my people, he orders me around like I'm his servant, and now this? How dare he!" I sighed. "How dare he!" came out. Could "Does he know who I am?" be far behind.

Around me, the morning traffic neighed, brayed, and defecated on the street.

My brother says the Broken has a city in this exact same spot. According to him, its citizens have an unhealthy fascination with pirates," Richard said.

I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

In a sixty-page report released in June 1938, Smythe concluded that the 120 air raids that Nanking experienced and the four-day siege of the city did only 1 percent of the damage inflicted by the Japanese army after it entered Nanking.

But no, she must be there, I felt, so charged with her presence was the image of that city which now rose up before me; and already in my mind I was walking with Anna along the Champs-Élysées, while the warm breeze of an eternal Parisian spring blew into our faces like drifting flowers the promises of a coming felicity.

It was cauld. For about a minute the grey sky ferociously split and sunlight burst through, pouring ower the city, reflectin off the glitterin granite. The blood pounded in ma heid, makin me want tae be somewhere else. Then it was away and that heavy cloak ay grey was back oan us.

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

All the land surface of Trantor, 75,000,000 square miles in extent, was a single city. The population, at its height, was well in excess of forty billions.

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

Sajnálom, Pirenne, de a városi alkotmány garantál bizonyos jelentéktelen apróságot, amit sajtószabadságként tartunk számon.

I, as Mayor of Terminus City, have just

In the year 1648, the wicked Ukrainian hetman, Bogdan Chmelnicki, and his followers besieged the city of Zamos? but could not take it, because it was strongly fortified; the rebelling haidamak peasants moved on to spread havoc in Tomaszów, Bilgoraj, KraÅ›nik, Turbin, Frampol - and in Goray, too, the town that lay in the midst of the hills at the end of the world.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

un estropicio de obreros haciendo hoyos en el pavimento, quitando árboles para pones postes, quitando postes para poner edificios, quitando edificios para plantar árboles.

My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.