Quotes About City

Bombing that city was a terrible mistake," the four-star general says on television, "but it taught me a lot about myself." Maybe he should give a medal to his therapist.

nightlife. She was more of a dancing shoes kind of girl than a hiking boots kind of girl. There was a pained sweetness about her

I don't think this city is ugly. And I don't believe in fairy tales.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should - which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they've chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

The hoverlanes were murder.

But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has not taken me very far from that original desire to inscribe a comet's orbit around the walls of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.

didn't find a girl—not that I looked very hard—but I did find a speakeasy on Beaubien Street, near the waterfront.

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

By voter registration, D.C. is the most Democratic city in America. Yet the instincts of the people who live there are deeply conservative. Washingtonians hate change. More than anything, they hate to be told they're wrong, or their ideas are stupid, especially when they are. This explains much of official Washington's hostility to Donald Trump.

I love this city. I love all cities. I'm in love with everyone and everything.

Gotham City isn't like anywhere else," Dr. Leland said with a faint, sad smile. "People who come here from other, more conventional cities find it hard to understand our brand of normal.

Gotham City made criminals via its own special recipe—one part felony, one part cosplay—

If you can't find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software

Short, narrow streets run far and wide / as if they were homesick.

She felt the curious flattening of inquiring spirit the traveller suffers from, knowing himself without occupation or investment in the fortunes of a strange city.

Partnering across neighborhoods in the city or county exposes areas of insularity and opens the door for reconciliation, collaboration and innovation.

He explained that he and his brother had been teleported to Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, where they had seen a city of incredible beauty and Charlie was transported to Apu in Alpha Centauri. In Apu the people live underground because the surface is uninhabitable.

One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.

An absence of gringos visiting the city meant that it was easy to find a taxi; they surrounded and implored me.

around the marshaling yards of the railway where I had embarked all those years ago, when this city had been raucous and sleazy, a frat boy's dream.

In a routine that served me for the next few weeks, I wandered around the busy, seemingly safe part of the city.

It is my suspicion that people who are glamoured by big cities and think of themselves as urbane and thoroughly metropolitan are at heart country mice—simple, fearful, overdomesticated provincials, dazzled by city lights.