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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

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind. — Protagoras

In my dreams of this city I am always lost. — Margaret Atwood

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

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. — Cassandra Clare

No one church model or theological tradition - can reach an entire city. Reaching — Timothy Keller

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

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

The cool, grey city of love. — George Sterling

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. — Janine Benyus

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. — Calamity Jane

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

Be the best, not necessarily the original. — I.M. Pei

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

Hell isn't some fiery pit "down there." It's right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town. — Ellen Hopkins

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing. — Mackenzie Davis

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

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

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

If I look back when I begin to leave, will they remember me? — Owl City

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde

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

The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans. — Russel Honore

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. — Cassandra Clare

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

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 looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time. — Graeme Simsion

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

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

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV. — Holly Madison

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up. — Loretta Lynn

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

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon. — Edmund White

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin

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

She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out. — Emma Donoghue

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

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

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner. — Grace Paley

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter — Vicki Pettersson

I was standing in the doorway when he said hi," Amy said. "And from the look on his face, what he has for you is not the key to the city. — Jennifer Crusie

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

I just would like to spend more time in New York City. — Scott Speedman

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

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

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

If all the women in the city fought like that, muggers would take up safer occupations, like wrestling rabid tigers. — J.C. Nelson

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

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

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

Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory

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

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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 changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. — Ed Koch

What did you give to the city, Montag?
Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury

Sarah in the City of Moon' is about building bridges not walls.'-Fida Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

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

I associated excellence in writing with New York City. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City. — Tina Fey

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

By 1900, electric delivery wagons, trucks, buses, ambulances, and taxis were roaming city streets across the country. — Seth Fletcher

I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations. — Mario Testino

Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky — Kate Tempest

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

At chaos' core lies the invitation. — Gina Greenlee

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

know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall. — Pete Hamill

on - that verse from Jeremiah - if you seek the welfare of the city where you are, you'll find your own welfare there too. — Kristen Ethridge

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. — Drake

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

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

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

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

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city. — Michael Nutter

Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company."
"We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus. — Cassandra Clare

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. — Alan Brien

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? — Garth Risk Hallberg

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. — Michael Bloomberg

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city. — Brooke Astor

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

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

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, — Illmaculate

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain

The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth. — Orhan Pamuk

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city — Cheryl Strayed

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window. — Ryan Tedder

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ... — Hilda Doolittle

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. — L. Frank Baum

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth! — Donna Tartt

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

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

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye. — Adam Young

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me. — Kenny Dalglish