Quotes About City life

El sabio —es decir, el hombre libre que sabe lo que de veras necesita— siempre preferirá vivir en la ciudad entre sus semejantes que solitario en la selva o en lo alto de un monte, sin más compañía que algún oso.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

I miss roaming around the Basant Lok market, eating out, the Capital's wide roads.

I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

'Girl in the City Chapter 2' will still continue to revolve around Meera Sehgal and her life, her friends, and her passion. The stark difference in 'Chapter 2' will be that all the characters have now grown up in the series - in terms of maturity if not so much age.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

Bailey always lived in cities, where everything was a crush and you were never really alone. He craved the buzz of people and culture, food and energy, architecture.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

London only stimulates, it cannot sustain

They reminded me somehow of the peasants in a book by Steinbeck: they were of the city, but they dressed like peasants, they looked like peasants, and they talked like peasants. Their cows were motor-driven milk floats; their tools were mop and pail and kneeling pad; their farms a forest of steel and concrete. In spite of the hairgrips and headscarves, they had their own kind of dignity. They

I love New York.

New York, New York,A helluva town.The Bronx is up and the Battery's down,And people ride in a hole in the ground.New York, New York,It's a helluva town!

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.