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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

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

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning. — Chris Kattan

I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage. — Siri Hustvedt

Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question... — T. S. Eliot

Safety Zone = Children of their own homes, gardens, streets, city, country, and all over the world. — Mehmet Kececi

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets. — Nancy Pickard

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. — Jerry Rubin

There is a city beneath the streets — Robert E. Sullivan Jr.

tall buildings and clustered streets of the city had her trapped like a mouse in a maze, without even the possible reward of cheese. — Charlie N. Holmberg

when the streets are deserted and a cold rind of moon floats over the canyons of the city. — Stephen King

Edinburgh is an experience
A city of enormous gifts
Whose streets sing of history
Whose cobbles tell tales. — Alan Bold

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. — Charlie Pierce

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city — Ilya Kaminsky

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights) — David Levien

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. — Dianne Feinstein

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. — Britt Ekland

Walking through the city streets ... Is it by mistake or design? — Lana Del Rey

The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning. — Ayn Rand

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. — Frederick Lenz

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

Frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. — Jane Jacobs

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end. — Jane Jacobs

How much did a Dragon hide, when he walked the streets of the city? — Michelle Sagara

I'm a creature of the New York City streets. — Woody Allen

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. — Stephen Jay Gould

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility. — Steve Erickson

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite. — Sid Luckman

The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where perhaps one solitary house stood out alone, — Erik Larson

The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day. — Sarah Parcak

The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ... — Alexis Carrel

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

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

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

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

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too. — Pierce Brosnan

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. — Tony Horwitz

Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman

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

He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He — Henning Mankell

As he walked along the crowded streets, he almost wished for the old days, and carelessly wondered how many men he had killed here. — Jose Antonio Villareal

This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets. — William Shakespeare

Love is the king of the beasts
And when it gets hungry it must kill to eat
Love is the king of the beasts
A lion walking down city streets — Bill Callahan

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. — Andy Warhol

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. — Chaim Potok

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. Streets sucked empty one by one. — Anthony Doerr

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later. — Reynolds Price