Quotes About City

They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.

Contemporary Las Vegas is astonishing. At night, it is a brilliant cluster of jewels of all shapes, sizes, and colors, glowing in the middle of a vast, black velvet canopy. By day, it is also an amazing sight, almost like a mirage. There is nothing but desert and rugged mountains all around, and then--in the middle of it all--one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the United States ... truly an enigma.

She feels a sudden, indiscriminate anger, although she's unsure of its target - the Gods who toy with women like her and Parvati for their own amusement, this cruel city that begets so many poor people that it cannot take care of them, or at her own obtuseness.

This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it's not.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

Moving to New York was about reinvention. If you didn't want that, you stayed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

I was just sick, beaten, in a city of millions, of suffering by myself. I was twenty-seven going on sixty-five. I should have received Social Security for my misery.

Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.

It was on those trips that I learned to respect and love the shortcomings of the city as one might respect and love a scar on the body of a loved one

In the West Fourth Street station, Vera was nowhere in sight, and I had an anxious, fizzy feeling in my stomach while I waited for the train. But I could feel the energy of the city in the vibrations coming off the tracks, and the diversity of the faces I saw around me made me feel so alive, so much a part of something kinetic, I swore I could taste it like metallic electricity on my tongue.

While there was champagne and oysters at the Ritz, during the occupation much of the city suffered from devastating food shortages and malnutrition, perhaps as many as 20 percent of the inhabitants.

fact, the battle continued less than fifty miles out of the city, and it would be more than a year still before there would be peace in Europe.

moment. 'In New York,

I wandered around for hours, dodging falling poo in alleyways

Tampa's Latin quarter, Ybor City. Ybor had been the Cuban-Italian core when Tampa was "Cigar City USA.

This is going to be the best display in the whole city! . . . Give me another string." Coleman handed it up. "But why do we have to go through all this work if we're just going to take it all down in a couple weeks?" "Because that's the true meaning of Christmas. Running up the December electric bill." Serge draped another strand over a palm frond.

Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami, in terms of square miles, which was 120. Of greater note are its 400 miles of canals, more than any other city in the world, including Venice.

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

It is no secret that New York City has an affordable housing shortage. For those who've returned from the battlefield, the problem is even more pronounced.

In the end, it was a no-brainer to join West Ham, but I still needed to take five minutes to myself because it's a big moment for anyone to move club, especially off the pitch when it involves moving to a big city. You've got to take every single factor into consideration because it's a big decision in your life.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.