Quotes About City

Everything here is too far to walk - or too muddy; for the dirt in Paris is beyond all description.

Creo que la vida tiene sentido y que todas las personas, ricas y pobres, morarán al final en la ciudad de Dios. Porque, desde luego, Manhattan se está volviendo inhabitable.

Here stood the palace of Syennesis, the king of the country; and through the middle of the city flows a river called the Cydnus, two hundred feet broad.

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

PHILIP II, WARLORD OF MACEDON: If I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city. SPARTANS TO PHILIP II: IF

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness…. There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

The freedom of the city"a phrase he had somewhere heardechoed in his mind. The freedom of the city! A magnificent saying, Electric signs, first burning wanly in the pink air, then brightened and grew strong. "Not light, but rather darkness visible," in that magic hour that just holds the balance between paling day and the spendthrift jewellery of evening.

By and bye he wrote two letters. One was to a bookseller in the city, asking him to send (at once) one copy of Dr. Holt's book on the Care and Feeding of Children, and a well-illustrated edition of Mother Goose. The other was to Mr. Poodle, asking him to fix a date for the christening of Mr. Gissing's three small nephews, who had come to live with him.

Ya saben: se puede estar solo en una fiesta de declarados amigos, en un asado familiar, en una mesa ruidosa de ex compañeras del secundario; se puede estar sola en la ciudad -a todas nos ha pasado-aunque todos los flacos te miren y te murmuren cosas cuando pasás. Pero, ¿saben que? también estamos solas cuando al amor lo encontramos online: lo leemos, lo sentimos, pero no lo vemos. Cuando las pruebas sólo son escritas, duele.

in the outer city, the northern accents clamoring around

Wie tussen de mensen heeft geleefd, en nog altijd uitkijkt naar een onverwachte gebeurtenis, die heeft niets begrepen en zal nooit iets begrijpen. Hij is rijp voor de Stad: alles moet hem worden aangeboden, alle posten en alle eerbetoon - en dat verklaart de duurzaamheid van die ondermaanse hel.

A day or so later, Gary David Goldberg, who created Family Ties and Spin City and Brooklyn Bridge and owns a house in the area, stops by the store looking for something to read. He picks up a copy of Must Love Dogs from the display. His five dogs are waiting for him in his car. He turns the book over and sees it's about a big Irish family. His wife, Diana Meehan, is from a big Irish family.

not-so-grand metropolis of Portland.

Upon the rubble horses would reappear announcing the rebirth of the old reality, their backs without riders. Because thus it had always been. Until a few men would tie them to wagons, once again erecting a city that they wouldn't understand, once again building, with innocent skill, the things. And then once more they'd need a pointing finger to give them their old names.

I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.

I'd done my practicum in one of the city's biggest shelters, witnessing the kinds of trauma no human would survive. The one lesson in all that? Animals feel. They're just as sensitive as we are, maybe more.

The echo of enslavement is everywhere. It is in the levees, originally built by enslaved labour. It is in the detailed architecture of some of the city's oldest buildings, sculpted by enslaved hands. It is in the roads, first paved by enslaved people.

The only battlefield where victory Is measured by the victim's ecstasy, And one soft cry is worth a city burning.

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.