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One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. — L. Neil Smith

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. — William, Saroyan

As for my feet, the little feet
You used to call so pretty,
There's one, I know, in Bedford Row,
The t'other's in the City. — Thomas Hood

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off. — Michael Patrick King

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight. — Gina Greenlee

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time. — Dean Winters

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games. — Jose Mourinho

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

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon

As many times as I blink I'll think of you tonight. — Owl City

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say. — Willie Garson

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. — David Eagleman

I won the city scoring championship as a senior. — Bob Cousy

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. — Nandan Nilekani

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

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. — Cassandra Clare

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy

city." As they descended, Eliza — Margaret Bradham Thornton

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco. — Chicken John

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. — Harold Washington

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City. — Jane Krakowski

Jeff: There's a lot of history in this city...
Peanut: Translated: Old. As. Shit. — Jeff Dunham

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city. — Terence Stamp

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne. — A.S. Byatt

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

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are. — Elisabeth Rohm

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city. — Henry Cisneros

Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result. — Raymond Kelly

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. — Joseph Chamberlain

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there. — Christian Bale

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city! — Victor Hugo

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again — Walter Dean Myers

We all tell the truth as we see it — Cassandra Clare

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California. — Debi Mazar

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

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

But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust. — Anthony Doerr

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe. — Richard Rogers

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

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. — Thucydides

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room ... I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue. — Weegee

The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason. — Charles Dickens

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare

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

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city. — Randy Bachman

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker. — Pete Hamill

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world. — Yanis Varoufakis

Piper's dad used to say that being in the airport didn't count as visiting a city. Piper felt the same
way about sewers. — Rick Riordan

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.. — Brandi L. Bates

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home. — Anais Nin

[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid. — V.S. Naipaul

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time! — Theophilus London

We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot spots. — Marc Cameron

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. — Kenneth Tynan

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. — Heraclitus

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members. — Carter F. Smith

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. — Bill Bryson

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett

My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside. — Joe Flaherty

Do you think city hall would take battling dragons as a excuse to waive a fine? — Sharon Ashwood

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work. — Bill Anderson

Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies. — Kate Rockland

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu. — Grace Meng

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love. — Gina Greenlee

She could have made a favourable impression on someone if she hadn't acted as though at any moment the city was going to step on her — Amor Towles

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like. — Laura Marling

they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The — Nicholas Eames

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night. — Sara Raasch

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love. — Dawn Powell

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall. — Heraclitus

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. — Storm Jameson

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. — Mary Jo Putney

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4. — Jerry Coleman

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

As I pedal down the street ... the city blocks peel away like pages in a book I'm rifling through to find a single, highlighted sentence. — Hilary T. Smith

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. — Norton Juster

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

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

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11. — Joseph J. Lhota

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. — Robert A. Dahl

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian

I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full; — Gregory Corso

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. — Douglas Engelbart