Quotes About City

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.

My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

You can take the people out of the city, but you can't take the soul — that remains here.

W?a?ciwie wszystko mi jedno. Jestem wolnym cz?owiekiem, który zawis? wysoko nad miastem i z oddali z ?agodnym zdumieniem przygl?da si? dziwnym ludziom oraz ich dziwnym poczynaniom.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

She too was gazing at the glimmering winows across the city.

For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition.

and the city fireworked alive all around us: flashing with neon signs and flaring with red and gold lights, buzzing with motorbikes and pumping with stereos, streaming warm wind through the open windows. The road unrolled in front of us, it sent its deep pulse up into the hearts of our bones, it flowed on long and strong enough to last us forever.

If you, like me, are essentially a city person, then the chances are that when you imagine a wood you picture a simple thing: matching green trees in even rows, a soft carpet of dead leaves or pine needles, orderly as a child's drawing. Possibly those earnestly efficient man-made woods are in fact like that; I wouldn't know.

This is the truth of bombed-out ruins: hit a city hard enough and the cheap arrogant veneer will crumble faster than you can snap your fingers; it's the old stuff, the stuff that's endured, that might just keep enduring.

Dublin was built for pedestrians and carriages, not for cars; it's full of tiny winding medieval streets, rush hour lasts from seven in the morning till eight at night, and at the first hint of bad weather the whole city goes into prompt, thorough gridlock.