Quotes About City life

We live in weird times and they are in Brooklyn.

New Orleans is my kind of city. I think there's a lot going on, but it's also very calm. It's a place where I can actually drive a car without being stuck in traffic for for 40, 50 minutes. It's my kind of city. A lot going on but still calm.

I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.

Nun erst lebte die Stadt, die mich so fremd, so sinnlos umbraust hatte, nun erst lebte ich wieder, das ich Dich nahe ahnte, Dich, meinen ewigen Traum.

It was the kind of phone booth you only saw in old movies and at the Farmers Market or over at Phillippe's.

Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

According to Time Out magazine, at any given moment there are 600,000 people on the Underground, making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo.

I loved this-living as part of a community...Short of living on a commune, how could I import the feeling of belonging somewhere back into my own life? Quite simply, I could move back to California, where my family and oldest friends were. If I loved the city life but didn't fancy living across the country from everyone I loved, why not San Francisco? I wanted a life, and I no longer really equated life with work.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

But for Maryam, university was just an interruption before she could take over the family business. The only future that mattered to her was the one that would unfold in Karachi, a city to which Zahra had no intention of returning once she'd left it.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was.

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.

Byen var et uhyre, som uavbrutt fødte, oppløste og slukte nye mennesker.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Quel gallo era come una persona impaziente. Come quelle che vivono nella città, che sembrano sempre avere cosi tanto da fare da non riuscire a fare altro che preoccuparsi della propria fretta. Non era come qui nel villaggio, dove tutto avveniva con la lentezza che in fondo era quella della vita stessa. Perché la gente doveva correre quando le piante, di cui vivevano,crescevano comunque con tanta lentezza?

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of thc belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the cmpty helly which are null and void.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.