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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
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
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
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
As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. — Cassandra Clare
"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
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— 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
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
— Harold Washington
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.
— Gerald Chertavian