Quotes About City

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

Wisdom of the Ages: "President's Day" One allowed the Federal Reserve and one got lead. One got a city and the other got dead.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.

To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

Vivir en una ciudad es, notoriamente, una experiencia ambivalente. Atrae y repele, pero para complicar aún más la situación del habitante de la ciudad, son los mismos aspectos de la vida urbana, intermitentemente o de manera simultánea, los que atraen y repelen." Zygmunt Bauman / Amor líquido

A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.

When the revolution aborted the project, the rulers of the United Arab Emirates realized the need for such a city and created in their kingdom the unfulfilled dream of the Shah. Today's Dubai is the child of yesterday's aborted Kish project.

Lewes and Eliot between them, someone has said, a little pretentiously but not wrongly, defined the liberalism of the oikos, the Greek word for home, whereas Trollope's is the liberalism of the polis, the city. Lewes and Eliot were more prescient of our own preoccupations: reform had to pass through the living room before it could move to Parliament.

The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small—to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways—to get it.

The city of Detroit slaughtered the animals in its zoo to provide meat for the hungry.

I could write a guidebook about this city, this fallen city. Street by street, house by house, church by church. What happened in this building, who was betrayed, and by whom, in this apartment, who waited for whom on this street corner. And why the person never came.

There is nothing more peaceful than New York City at three A.M. It's the rest period before the madness begins at dawn.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan

Any sadness I might have felt, any suspicion that happiness or understanding was unattainable, seemed to find ready encouragement in the sodden dark-red brick buildings and low skies tinged orange by the city's streetlights.

We admire New York precisely because the traffic and crowds have been coerced into a difficult but fruitful alliance.

Mapas têm POTÊNCIA; se adequadamente decifrados, geram uma riqueza inestimável de saber. Codificados nas pedras desta cidade estão símbolos cujo trovejar basta para despertar os deuses adormecidos e submersos no leito oceânico dos sonhos. Para o melhor ou o pior.

His son had gone astray in the great city, where so many others had gone astray before him, and where many others would go astray after him, until there was found some great secret that as yet no man had discovered.

pressured the city of Berlin to rename itself Kitchener.