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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

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

Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples. — Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

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

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

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere. — Willie Stargell

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

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

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

We are the only people who may know the will of God for the city we live in. God expects us to become intercessors for our countries — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies. — Leslye Walton

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

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

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

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

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road. — Monika Chiang

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

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

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city. — Sam Waterston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this city [Palermo] ... it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children ... We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys. — Gianni Riotta

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city... — Bhanu Kapil

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home — Jessie Burton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the city," he said diplomatically. — Victoria Thompson

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. — Robyn Davidson

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

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City. — Lea Thompson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At chaos' core lies the invitation. — Gina Greenlee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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