Quotes About City

In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century;

But of Paris it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.

New Yorkers who had gone to bed on Sunday evening to the sound of rain were startled on Monday morning to find snow sifting in through cracks around their windows and piling up in front of their doors so fast that even those who left home at dawn had to dig their way out.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

The city is courting bites, asks me to polish silver, making sounds fit for no one's ears.

Dia... het is zo. Ik begrijp er niet veel van, maar ik geloof je wél. Je komt uit een grote stad hier heel ver vandaan, waar je heel erg ziek bent, en hier ben je opeens gezond en wel. Hoe bestaat dat? - Arianna

Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.

How can I but weep and lament? An eagle with claws like a lion has swooped down upon me. He has captured my beauty, my riches, my children. Our land is a desert! our city ruined. Our brothers have been carried away to a place where our fathers never dwelt—nor our grandfathers—nor our great-grandfathers!

Men are better watching the seasons, and putting good into the earth, than running together in cities, where they listen all day to each other's noises and forgot the gods. Acharnai is quite far enough.

We lived in the Bull Court; a city sealed in a palace, and a life sealed in with death. Yet it is a proud city, and a strong fierce life. A man once in it is of it till he dies. So I, who have gray beginning in my beard, still say "it is", as if the Bull Court stood and I might yet go back to it.

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.

Sinki, blinki, stinki, Helsinki!

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

Jerusalén seguía estando llena de ira, de sangre, de rencor y de muerte. Bien podría Jesús haber elegido otra ciudad para morir y Mahoma otra para ascender al cielo. Habrían salvado muchas vidas humanas y muchas almas que no hubieran conocido el odio.

person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

Cities twinkling at night as you drive past them, as if they are fallen constellations of stars.

Toronto is the greatest and happiest city on earth, but despite that — maybe because of that — it made me unhappy, as I just lived in an apartment there, never seeing anyone. Once I went to watch the Blue Jays play baseball, but being surrounded by so many people who I knew I could never connect with was the thing that made me want to [leave].

Ein Mensch war wie eine Stadt. Ein paar weniger wünschenswerte Aspekte durften nicht den Blick aufs Ganze verstellen. Vielleicht gab es einiges, was man nicht mochte, ein paar zwielichtige Straßen und Vororte, aber wegen der guten Seiten lohne es sich doch. - S. 61

person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything.

Una persona è come una città. Non puoi permettere che alcune zone meno belle rovinino l'armonia del tutto. Ci possono essere posti che non ami, alcune strade secondarie e sobborghi poco raccomandabili, ma le parti belle la rendono degna di essere amata.