City Quotes

There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets...

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The...

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. Y...

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the soun...

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused p...

It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away f...

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Tows...

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your fri...

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk a...

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,...

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I...

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through ...

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. ...

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements...

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traff...

Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable ...

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the set...

Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb ou...

Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you cou...

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live...

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...

Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more pie...

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this...

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you...

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practi...

The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from a...

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to...

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes...

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...

Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is...

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,...

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them...

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

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

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of i...

Far from gay cities and the way of men.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e...

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other su...

In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock alon...

Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis...

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into...

Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above ...

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. Ther...

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powe...

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's wo...

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had ne...

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those yo...

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsew...

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to...

I came to this city to escape.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite...

Some nights, we were a city of two.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right an...

But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an a...

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs,...

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. T...

He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the man...

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and ...

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determi...

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

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fa...

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and pe...

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the ci...

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages the...

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we wou...

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and en...