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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city. — Vance Bourjaily

A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets — Steve Toltz

With'n these ribs is / a City of Luminous / all thanks t'you. — Evy Zen

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone. — Teri Hatcher

'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human. — Ilana Glazer

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Augustus

A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes. — Daniel Bruhl

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time. — Brandi Carlile

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. — Rory Bremner

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl

Mumbai is not a city, it's a way of life — Subhasis Das

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation — Sunday Adelaja

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne. — Cassandra Clare

I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community. — Katherine McNamara

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. — John Hickenlooper

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. — Adam Young

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. — Rick Snyder

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city. — Julian Bond

Charlotte is a city with both feet planted firmly in the New South, with the emphasis on the 'new'. — Harry Hoover

They say that every person, every venture, every city has a place where the road splits and you have to choose your direction. — Guy A Johnson

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible. — Maria Schell

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges. — Roman Payne

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness — Narendra Modi

I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible. — Imtiaz Ali

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. — Erik Larson

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher. — Ivana Trump

For a moment it seemed incomprehensible to me that anyone would build a whole city when all that was needed was a room for her. — Lydia Davis

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all. — Jacqueline Koyanagi

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. — Anne Robinson

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. — Cassandra Clare

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. — Edward Moore

She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart. — Sarah J. Maas

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a big change ... it's a big city, it's very fast. — Kate DeAraugo

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world — Munia Khan

Let the park live in you until it sings you a song. — Zack Love

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre. — Lillete Dubey

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it? — Margaret Mead

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily. — Rachel Hartman

We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand — Janet Fitch

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you. — Noel Gallagher

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine. — Anna Godbersen

The gleam in those green-brown eyes was positively rakish. She hadn't thought City had a speck of rakishness in him. — Ruthie Knox

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city. — Krist Novoselic

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. — Henry David Thoreau

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn't know how to swim finds himself at its bottom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

tube or 2 of these water purification tablets at your home or in your car. If there was ever a shortage or damage to the city supply, you would — Jon Woodward

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
"That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown. — Cassandra Clare

Mesopotamia
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. — Chelsea Cain

Okay, no reason to have a heart attack. He's just a guy ... the yummiest guy in Yum City. — Kate Brian

Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class. — Mark Helprin

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. — Steve Reich

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. — Kahlil Gibran

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city. — Sarah McLachlan

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. — Meir Kahane

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are. — Caitlin Stasey

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty. — Russell Baker

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment. — Brandon Jacobs

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

L.A. is my American city. — Tom Ford

Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you. — Cassandra Clare

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month. — Jerry Moran

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color. — Lady Bird Johnson

Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. — Sam Palladio

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race. — Martin Lel

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy ... — Theodore Dreiser

That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it. — Eddie Huang

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back. — Steen Langstrup

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believed. The city would soon follow her lead — Tommy McMahon

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there. — Marina Tavares Dias

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall. — Christine Quinn

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it. — Lauren Lapkus

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then. — Cassandra Clare

she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness. — Lauren Gilley

Hell is a city much like London. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oscar Otero Aguilar, 21, of Mexico City, Mexico, accidentally shot himself in the head while posing for a "selfie" with a loaded gun. — Benjamin Burrow

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. — Tom Piazza

He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women ... — Ann Patchett

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel. — Simon R. Green

Home isn't just a house or a city or a place; home is what happens when you're brave enough to love people. — Natalie Lloyd

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. — Rashida Jones

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes. — Bar Refaeli

The only thing that makes a name important, and yours, is that it's given to you by someone who loves you — Cassandra Clare