Old City Quotes: top 49 famous quotes about Old City

Old City Quotes & Sayings

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I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that. — Emmett Spain

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. — Edward Burtynsky

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions. — Colson Whitehead

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. — Laura Miller

It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; — Neil Gaiman

I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do. — Brian Posehn

A pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city? — Thomas Pynchon

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away. — Cassandra Clare

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands. — Moshe Dayan

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
[Mexico City concert, June 2011] — Chavela Vargas

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart). — Charles Baudelaire

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old. — Demi Lovato

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me. — O. Henry

When I have trouble sleeping, I'll read, watch old episodes of 'Sex and the City,' or dance around my house. Music helps me wind down. — Zoe Kravitz

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner. — Naomi Shibab Nye

I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun. — Emmett Spain

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'! — John Burgon

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues. — Hank Williams Jr.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another. — Josephine Baker

In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man. — Christina Henry

I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming. — Jim Thompson

But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. — John Dos Passos

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

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them! — Kurt Braunohler

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

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

I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible. — Imtiaz Ali

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City. — Ozzy Osbourne

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl. — Mickey Spillane

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles

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

I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war. — Cassandra Clare

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city. — Jessica Lowndes

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. — Laura Miller

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? — Nellie McKay

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world. — Ed Koch

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

These men represent the blend of state-of-the-art technology and shrewd old-school intelligence that makes our city as safe as anyplace on the planet. — Dick Wolf

Intramuros! The old Manila. The original Manila. The Noble and Ever Loyal City ... — Nick Joaquin

Eddie remembered the punchline of an old New York joke: "Pardon me, sir, can you tell me how to get to City Hall, or should I just go fuck myself? — Stephen King

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. — O. Henry

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death. — Jim Murphy

Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his. — Robert Galbraith

Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there! — Fei Fei Sun