City Quotes
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...
Show MoreThe fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a goo...
Show MoreTokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, ev...
Show MoreSooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but ...
Show MoreA great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
She could hear her hair growing. It sounded like something crumbling. A burnt thing crumbling. Coal....
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She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen ...
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Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to spea...
Show MoreLike the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of d...
Show MoreSo while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...
Show MoreI don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...
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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreThe Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...
Show MoreStockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous ...
Show MoreI'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than ju...
Show MoreI walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a...
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There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets...
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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...
Show MoreBarcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. Y...
Show MoreThe 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...
Show MoreWe'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...
Show MoreAll 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...
Show MoreIt's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away f...
Show MoreI can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Tows...
Show MoreSolitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your fri...
Show MoreThe further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk a...
Show MoreCreation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...
Show MoreI 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,...
Show MoreMy dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I...
Show MoreThe 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 ...
Show MoreCity of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. ...
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The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...
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Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements...
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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...
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Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable ...
Show MoreCommuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the set...
Show MoreAh, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb ou...
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Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you cou...
Show MoreIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live...
Show MoreIn those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...
Show MoreThe truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...
Show MoreThe soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...
Show MoreSaying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more pie...
Show MoreLook, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this...
Show MoreLiquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you...
Show MoreThe ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practi...
Show MoreThe brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from a...
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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...
Show MoreOvercrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes...
Show MoreNow you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...
Show MoreYou alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...
Show MoreThe city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...
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Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is...
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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,...
Show MoreIt seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...
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He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them...
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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...
Show MoreEach year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...
Show MoreTo 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...
Show MoreA city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of i...
Show MoreFar from gay cities and the way of men.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e...
Show MoreThe 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...
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In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock alon...
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Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
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the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis...
Show Morethis 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...
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Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above ...
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. Ther...
Show More...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powe...
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's wo...
Show MoreHere's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...
Show MoreAmsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had ne...
Show MoreIn small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those yo...
Show MoreNo neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...
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To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...
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When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.
