Quotes About City life

The wonderful thing about this city is when you get tired you can always lean against it.

In cities and factories, the vices of our nature are more fully displayed," declared James Hammond of South Carolina in 1829, while rural life "promotes a generous hospitality, a high and perfect courtesy, a lofty spirit of independence . . . and all the nobler virtues and heroic traits.

liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.

SHORE-LARK During the week, the shore-lark works in the City and flies home every night with its mate in Wimbledon, where it is a model husband and father. At weekends, however, it migrates briefly on Brighton, on any of one hundred pretexts, where is meets female shore-larks under the pier and seeks to recapture its lost youth.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

I really would move to L.A. I'm thinking so hard about it. Like, I wanna move to L.A., but I'm such a New York City girl - the fast life, the runways on the street - but I love L.A.'s vibe, so I would move here, but I'm still thinking about it!

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

My wife and I lived in Chicago for two months, and we went to a lot of great restaurants.

I love cities.

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

Las grandes novelas son como las ciudades: lugares cotidianos donde suceden hechos extraordinarios. Todas las vidas posibles se superponen y se entrecruzan en sus calles y una ciudad es también un tejido de relatos.

People are always talking about advancement and success, but going to Tokyo and living a vain, frivolous life wasn't advancement; it wasn't success.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.