Quotes About City

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

This is a story of eternal love, which is born among the ices but which is soon mixed with dreams of death and of a new dawn. The first heroes were those who surrendered themselves to the holocaust of love. As they died, they caught a last glimpse of the City of Dawn and felt for the last time the milky lightning of the moon.

Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w Tebach, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do Teb, gdy? nie ma na ziemi innego miasta podobnego do Teb. Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w ubogim zauÅ'ku, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do tej uliczki, z paÅ'acu cedrowego tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do glinianej lepianki; od zapachów mirry i drogocennych olejków tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do woni ognisk z bydlÄ™cego nawozu i ryb sma?onych na oleju.

Then Ellie found herself sitting at a table in the bar of the Algonquin Hotel, back in New York City. Nadine was sitting opposite her.

There was no 'linkage', in other words, between corporate-oriented public investment and the social needs that desperately fought for attention in the rest of the city budget.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

You know you're in L.A. when you put air in your tires and they cough.

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression.

A sexually unapologetic fashionista tries to find love in the big city … wait a second! This sounds like the premise of my show, The Mindy Project. But it's not my fault. I didn't come up with this format. Not many people know this, but The Mindy Project is actually based on a famous Venezuelan show called Puta Gordita, or "The Chubby Slut.

If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.

Dil-o-Dilli donon agar hain kharaab Pa kuchh lutf is ujde ghar mein bhi hain

It was colder that winter than I knew cold could be, even though the girl from Minnesota down the hall declared it "nothing." Out in Oregon, snow had been a gift, a two-day dusting earned by enduring months of gray, dripping sky. But the wind whipping up the Hudson from the city was so vehement that even my bone marrow froze. Every morning, I hunkered under my duvet, unsure of how I'd make it to my 9:00 a.m. Latin class. The clouds spilled endless white and Ev slept in.

It was a new experience to walk across the city in tiny shorts and a half shirt… I often felt that I would be shot in the back with an arrow or gun, but this didn't happen. The world wasn't safer than I had thought; on the contrary, it was so dangerous that my practically naked self fit right in, like a car crash, it happened every day.

I flitted around the city either turning heads or else walking by heads just as they were turning.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

O vreme, oraÈ™ul a fost blând È™i familiar, È™tiam str?duÈ›ele È™i cl?dirile din jurul casei noastre, peste care ningea acum greu, uscat, foÈ™nind uÈ™or. ... Dup? un timp de tors leneÈ™, oraÈ™ul a început îns? s? mârâie ca un animal iritat. Nu mai È™tiam drumul... oraÈ™u-a-nceput s? rag? ca un leu din toate cl?dirile lui necunoscute, din str?zile necunoscute, din ochii oamenilor necunoscuÈ›i.

BucureÅŸtiul, îndeosebi, are cele mai toxice amurguri, în toate anotimpurile. E greu s? r?mâi singur, s? nu te îndr?gosteÅŸti, s? nu-Å£i cauÅ£i pereche într-un astfel de oraÅŸ, în care soarele se stinge cu atâta melancolie...

It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

Es posible, sin embargo, que el aspecto de la revolución de la movilidad que más está transformando el poder sea la urbanización.

So the city emerges as man's ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he achieves through the city is largely abstract and spurious: The sources of our biological lives remain the same as they always were—they come from Matter and Land. But city-man maintains contact with his natural life-sources not through immediate body experience, but through an artificial medium of exchange: money.