Quotes About City

Without any apparent volition by Cortés, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac.

The discovery—an unknown city in Peru that was as old as the Egyptian Pyramids—set off headlines around the world.

Flush with wealth, Tiwanaku city swelled into a marvel of terraced pyramids and grand monuments. Stone breakwaters extended far out into Lake Titicaca, thronged with long-prowed boats made of reeds. With its running water, closed sewers, and gaudily painted walls, Tiwanaku was among the world's most impressive cities.

By mining the forests upstream for firewood and floating the logs downriver to the city, they were removing ground cover and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic floods.

E. B. White wrote, "No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."1

There's a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city.

Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.

At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has tossed up there that dangle in testement to some shit that I have never figured out as long as I have lived in this city. I sit on the curb and stuff my feet inside leaving the laces undone. There too small but the right one fits a little better than the left. Not having a big toe is already paying off.

Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes.

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

If I were to be stuck in New York, I would be miserable. I love N.Y.C. but it's not enough.

Nah, I see Chicago often. I go out there, so nah, I don't miss it.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I missed my roots, so I ended up buying a home in Kansas City.

I do find myself missing the energy of New York more and more often as my time away from the city progresses.

New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.

At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food.

I come from a city where we really didn't have too many role models.

London is a modern Babylon.

No one has ever done the Echo Arena, and I'm a Scouser. The momentum I've got and the way MMA is growing in the city and the way MMA fans are - Scousers, as individual fans, are just amazing - it doesn't matter who it's against.

My main base is Monaco, and that's where I live most of the time.

I'm just happy the city has something to be proud of. The Cavs, the Indians, the Monsters. It just shows that we are the land of champions.

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.