City Quotes

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artist...

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blas...

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

So now I lye by Day and toss or rave by Night, since the ratling and perpetual Hum of the Town deny ...

When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't ...

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed an...

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. ...

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we d...

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there wer...

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This ...

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are...

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my...

I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't b...

Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was ...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved...

To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,A...

Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming questio...

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you ...

There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld c

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trop...

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate....

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to ...

Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Si...

And when spring comes to the City people notice one another in the road; notice the strangers with w...

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, an...

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

God made the country and man made the town.

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the count...

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, c...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within ...

On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...

This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled stre...

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our d...

I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ...

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a goo...

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, ev...

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but ...

A 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....

She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen ...

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to spea...

Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of d...

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...

I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous ...

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than ju...

I 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...

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.