Quotes About City

New York City is a place where everyone lived on top of each other, and that was exactly how Sabrina liked it. Living out in the middle of nowhere was dangerous and suspicious.

But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it's just not usually the best one.

The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day—nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day.

Why is the station so far out of the city limits anyway? Most likely a collusion between the builders of stations and the builders of long roads.

There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.

The London Underground

elaborately-simple beautifully conceived clothes. The face itself was sufficient to place her within ten square miles of the world's surface. Only one capital city could produce that deepest of dark brown hair, with high-lights of black, that white neck solidly angled to the shoulders, yet too well-proportioned to seem thick: Siamese cat's eyes of very light blue, which were so rarely

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

Practice listening to the sounds of Nature around you, or, if you live in a city, listen to your favorite music played softly enough that you really have to listen to hear it. When thoughts intrude on your listening, just accept it and, without resistance, let them go. You cannot force listening; you can only surrender your resistance to listening!

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have appeared strange to his countrymen at any time.']

A chaos of wrinkles map his face, an entire life set there: Mexico City.

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

Rush hour was under way; her car became one more pair of headlights in a glittering daisy chain of commuters.

Only in promotional brochures was Los Angeles the City of Angels. To those who knew it, really knew it, it was not a city, but a vast, open grave swallowing up young lives.

What an unforgiving city. There are no honest mistakes any more. No unfortunate accidents. No mitigating circumstances. Everybody gets what they deserve. The poor. The sick. The unemployed. The inattentive.

on cultivating virtue upon practice] Rousseau held a similar view. The more a country asks of its citizens, the greater their devotion to it. "In a well-ordered city every man flies to the assemblies." Under a bad government, no one participates in public life "because no one is interested in what happens there" and "domestic cares are all-absorbing." Civic virtue is built up, not spent down, by strenuous citizenship.

De stad heeft zo'n 2100 kilometer riool... Ongeveer 1300 mijl. Maar maak je geen zorgen. Verdwalen zullen we niet. De meeste hebben hun eigen straatnaambord. - Machiavelli, over Parijs

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

MY FIRST SUMMER living in New York, I couldn't wait for

New York, the world's largest Jewish city.

o espaço nunca é tão urbanizado que não se acabe por descobrir um local imprevisto onde o tempo se liberta dos constrangimentos normais

Se gândi la toÈ›i oamenii care coexist? f?r? vreun motiv aparent, în inima aceluiaÈ™i oraÈ™, f?r? vreun interes sau vreo preocupare comune, urmând traiectorii neb?nuite È™i divergente, dar aduÈ™i împreun? de sex sau de crim?.