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Quotes About City

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
~ Yehuda Amichai
A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev's street.
~ Unknown
Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
~ Zadie Smith
New York just expects so much from a girl—acts like it can't stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity. . . . Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be "all that you might be." Such a thrill—until it becomes a burden.
~ Zadie Smith
Everybody knows that if people hang around for any length of time in an urban area without purpose they are likely to become "antisocial.
~ Zadie Smith
And if the City falls but a single man escapes. He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile. He will be the City.
~ Zbigniew Herbert
cemeteries grow larger the number of defenders shrinks but the defense continues and will last to the end and even if the City falls and one of us survives he will carry the City inside him on the roads of exile he will be the City we look at the face of hunger the face of fire the face of death and the worst of them all—the face of treason and only our dreams have not been humiliated
~ Zbigniew Herbert
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
~ Miranda Otto
Guardiola has come to City with a very unique style. And he wants to continue that philosophy. We had to work to adapt to his style.
~ Vincent Kompany
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
~ Ira Sachs
I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.
~ Luke Bracey
New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.
~ Dean Winters
I don't know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team's city.
~ Kemba Walker
It annoys me how expensive it is to live in London, but I think that annoys everyone.
~ Les Dennis
I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.
~ Teri Polo
It's a city that we have always liked. Who doesn't like New York? When you are here you do feel a bit more anonymous. Obviously, you still find people who recognize you, but it's nice to be able to go out and walk around and have it be a normal experience.
~ Raul
I can't imagine London is different to anywhere else - people with cars are always the most popular.
~ Charlotte Ritchie
When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'
~ Rostam Batmanglij
I just like my lifestyle living in L.A. I didn't want to move to any other state, I didn't want to go anywhere else.
~ Eli Drake
No one in New York hangs out in their apartments.
~ Chris Gethard
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
~ Taylor Caldwell
MSG is the world's greatest arena, and New York is so competitive.
~ Larry Johnson
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
~ Santiago Calatrava
And lastly, here in Paris there is a spirit which you breathe in the air; it infuses the least details, every literary creation bears traces of its influence. You learn more by talk in a cafe, or at a theatre, in one half hour, than you would learn in ten years in the provinces. Here, in truth, wherever you go, there is always something to see, something to learn, some comparison to make.
~ Honore de Balzac