Quotes About City life

It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.

I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

This part of rue Ste.-Catherine wasn't so much an artery as an intestine.

These stories date from my Honorable Discharge from the Army at the end of World War II. Their order is, to the best of my memory, chronological and the most embarrassingly immature pieces have been dropped. These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

I like where I live here, in London.

I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.

I really enjoy my life in Manchester, my training, my games, everything.

I like the life in Manchester a lot.

My favorite elements of 'Start Talkin'' were those man-on-the-street pieces. I love shooting those. I was born in Manhattan, have lived in or around New York my entire life, and I feel like I'm in my element when doing those pieces.

And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does, all the lives they've hoarded, all the ghosts they've carried, all the inversions they've made for protection, all the scars and marks and records for recognition - the whole heterogeneous baggage falls out with each step on the pavement. There's so much spillage.

Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.

I cannot recall that even the supposedly awful temptations of a city life were temptations to us. Our companions were clean companions, our recreations were clean recreations, the plays we went to were clean plays.

It won't take much of a city to be a city for me

I never feel as fully awake as when I'm in NY.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

I interned one summer in Washington, D.C., and didn't die," I said.

Una ciudad se parece mucho a un animal. Tiene un sistema nervioso, una cabeza, unos hombros y unos pies. Está separada de las otras ciudades, de tal modo que no existen dos idénticas. Y es además un todo emocional.