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Quotes About City

Many of you remember when Dutch Elm disease swept the East Coast. People in big cities saw the trees die but it didn't register, in any way at all, that this would compromise oxygen. Think of it, that many trees dying in that short a time span means there is less photosynthesis. Less oxygen is being produced. Therefore pollution in the big cities becomes more pronounced. These basics do not occur to people who work in buildings where the windows don't open.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.
~ Roald Dahl
Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.
~ Roald Dahl
Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way—that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.
~ Robert A. Caro
It's possible that a meteor will come hurtling in from outer space and wipe out this whole city." And so on. The neutral and objective view that covered any other experience in Holy Out's life just couldn't reach the area of the first shot; that was permanently buried under everything he had ever read about the causes of deviant behavior.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Joyce announced that he did not believe in heroes, and Bloom is no hero: just an ordinary decent man. There are a million like him in any large city: Joyce was merely the first to put him in a novel, with biological functions and timid courage unglamorized and uncensored.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy going, I thought. Being horny at twenty degrees wasn't all that easy either.
~ Robert B. Parker
In L.A., next to riots and earthquakes, fires are our largest spectator sport.
~ Robert Crais
The Burbank Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.
~ Robert Crais
She gazed up at the buildings and imagined angels perched on the edge of the roofs; tall slender angels with drooping wings; standing in perfect silence, watching her without expectation as if in an eternal dream: We give you the city. No one is watching. Set yourself free.
~ Robert Crais
Chavez Ravine is a broad flat bowl surrounded by low mountains that wall the stadium from the city. Dodger Stadium sits in the center of the bowl, surrounded by black tarmac parking lots like some kind of alien spacecraft resting alone on its launching pad. All you'd need was a big shiny robot, and you'd think Michael Rennie had come back to Earth.
~ Robert Crais
Flynn seemed to want a response, so Pike nodded. "I respect your service, but I don't give a rat's ass about it. Half this police force was in the Marines and the other half is tired of hearing about it. This is a city in the United States of America. It isn't a war zone.
~ Robert Crais
The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
~ Robert Frost
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
~ Robert Frost
Over the page I went, shifting the bit of coal to a new position; and, as the scheme of the picture disengaged itself from out the medley of colour that met my delighted eyes, first there was a warm sense of familiarity, then a dawning recognition, and then — O then! along with blissful certainty came the imperious need to clasp my stomach with both hands, in order to repress the shout of rapture that struggled to escape — it was my own little city!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Sometimes, driving past restaurants that had once been other restaurants, big box stores that had once been wood lots and houses, I imagined that if I could just make the right set of turns, the city would unlock for me, and my car would carry me into the roads of fifteen years ago.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Bu kentin ne çat?lar?n? ???ldatan aylar? sayabilirsin, Ne de duvarlar?n?n gerisine gizlenen bin muhteÅŸem güneÅŸi.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Titanic city was born. It's the song, they said. No, the sea, the luxury, the ship. It's the sex, they whispered. Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It's all about Leo. Everybody wants Jack, Laila said to Mariam. That's what it is. Everybody wants Jack to rescue them from disaster.
~ Khaled Hosseini
B? không th? tin r?ng mình Ä'ang r?i b? Kabul. B? h?c ? Ä'ây, ki?m ???c công vi?c ??u tiên ? Ä'ây, tr? thành má»™t ng??i b? ? thành ph? này. Th?t l? lùng khi nghÄ© ??n chuy?n ch?ng bao lâu b? s? ng? dưới má»™t b?u tr?i thành ph? khác.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A city of harelipped ghosts
~ Khaled Hosseini
I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
~ Khushwant Singh
And Trent," I said, watching Rex since Jenks was preoccupied with a flightless child. "Beloved city son and idiot billionaire goes and gets caught in the ever-after. Who has to bust her butt and make a deal with demons to get him back?" "The one who got him there?" Jenks said, and my eyes narrowed.
~ Kim Harrison
The outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab. said Fran Lebowitz
~ Kim Stanley Robinson