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Quotes About City

Por lo visto, en aquella parte de la ciudad hasta los demonios eran educados.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Lisbon is a good city to get lost in. Mornings in cafes scribbling in yet another notebook, each blank page offering escape, the pen serving, fluid and constant. I sleep well, dream little, simply exists within an uninterrupted interlude.
~ Patti Smith
I should get out of here, I am thinking, out of the city. But where would I go that I would not drag my seemingly incurable lethargy along with me,
~ Patti Smith
I should get out of here, I am thinking, out of the city. But where would I go that I would not drag my seemingly incurable lethargy along with me, like the worn canvas sack of an angst-driven teenage hockey player?
~ Patti Smith
Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
~ Patti Stanger
Recognizing a familiar accent, he asked Lamoreux where he was from. "Helena," said Lamoreux. "Miles City," replied Hilleman, extending his hand. "Take them all," said Lamoreux, smiling broadly. "One buck apiece.
~ Paul A. Offit
domain, such as air pollution control or health policy, there are normally dozens of different programs involving multiple levels of government that are operating, or are being proposed for operation, in any given locale, such as the state of California or the city of
~ Unknown
When you live in the city, you learn to take nothing for granted. Close your eyes for a moment, turn around to look at something else, and the thing that was before you is suddenly gone. Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
~ Paul Auster
On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.
~ Paul Auster
The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.
~ Paul Auster
This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to an orangutan.
~ Paul Beatty
It's like the specter of segregation has brought the city of Dickens back together again." I decided to give my new career as City Planner in Charge of Restoration and Segregation another six months. If things didn't work out, I could always fall back on being black.
~ Paul Beatty
That the city would return to being the thriving white suburb of his youth. Cars with tail fins. Straw hats and sock hops. Episcopalians and ice cream socials. It would be the opposite of white flight, he said. "The Ku Klux influx." But when I'd ask him how, he'd just shrug and, like a conservative senator without any ideas, filibuster me with unrelated stories about the good ol' days.
~ Paul Beatty
I've finally figured out what's wrong with Washington D.C. It's that all the buildings are more or less the same height and there's absolutely no skyline, save for the Washington Monument touching the night sky, like a giant middle finger to the world.
~ Paul Beatty
I missed my father driving us back from the Pomona State Fair, elbowing me awake, the Dodger postgame on the radio as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes just in time to see that sign, DICKENS-NEXT EXIT, and know I was home. Shit, I missed that sign. And what are cities really, besides signs and arbitrary boundaries?
~ Paul Beatty
What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
~ Unknown
the prostitute Rahab helps Israelite spies and earns protection from the destruction of the city: God knocks its walls flat as Joshua's army marches outside, blowing trumpets and shouting. Joshua leads a successful military campaign to clear idol-worshipping people—Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—from the land.
~ Unknown
But if it were only a matter of attracting success and good fortune to his city and his empire, then being pronounced a god would have meant little more than being appointed a kind of national or city mascot – a role mostly played for us by pet animals these days.
~ Unknown
Si vivre dans les villes est une folie, au moins New York est-il une folie qui en vaut la peine.
~ Paul Morand
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
~ Paul Prudhomme
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
~ Paul Schrader
There is weeping in my heartLike the rain falling on the city.
~ Paul Verlaine
II pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. NÆ¡i tim Ä'ây n?c n?, như thành ph? mưa rÆ¡i...
~ Paul Verlaine