Quotes About City

Sao Paulo is a dump. That's a known fact.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a writer, and Riddler was a lot of fun to get to have that sort of annoying know-it-all personality lording over the city. He's a lot of fun to write about.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

New York has always embraced me.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Well, honestly, I look forward to every opportunity to come to Bengaluru; I love everything about the city.

Barcelona, negó entonces con la cabeza Dalmau, era una ciudad tremendamente cruel con quienes la engrandecían entregando su vida y su salud, su familia y sus hijos.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city; my days, your pigeons, are fighting for crumbs—

Ella looked every bit like a well-to-do city woman. Her black hair was coiled in waves around her head, beneath a pert, proper red hat. She wore matching gloves and a coat that looked thick and warm. She was a tall woman with a strong presence. She seemed enormous to me, like Papa, so full of blackness.

1984, when it presented its findings at a conference at the University of Colorado in Boulder.*" [*See Hoagland's The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever.]

A foggy day in London TownHad me low and had me down.I viewed the morning with alarm.The British Museum had lost its charm.

We reached the big rock fortress of Amasya; the slender charm of minarets came into view; and we halted by the wooden bridge on the YeÅŸil Irmak, a river that flows through the center of the city.

The city isn't good and the city isn't happy and the city is sick," he says--"but you are good and I thank you for that.

At home, we had lots of streets too, but they were all familiar with each other. Here, there are so many more streets that they can't possibly all know each other. It's a fabulous city.

If you're blue and youDon't know where to go to,Why don't you go where Harlem sits,Puttin' on the Ritz?

Psalms 127:1." Slowly, Eaton leafed through the book, and then he said, "Is this it? 'Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Cortés remained in Cholula for several weeks, parleying with the emissaries of Moctezuma and preparing to march to the city on the lake.

For the first three weeks in June, the conquistadors and their Indian allies fought skirmishes on the outskirts of the city.

Sunday had spread all over the city. It looked as if the sun had smacked into the earth and broken into pieces and chunks of wet light were scattered everywhere -- in the streets, on the window panes, on puddles and roofs. I remembered a day long ago when Grandmother had cleaned a big fish. Her forearms were splattered with shiny scales. It was as if she had Sunday in her whole body. When my father got angry, he had Tuesday.

In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.)