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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. — George Ade

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. — Stephen King

He's body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he's punched in the throat — Gena Showalter

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens. — Cennino Cennini

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

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell. — Evan Esar

It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you. — Patrick Kane

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul! — Lord Byron

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE. — Nick Bantock

I have always thought that if the city cannot come to the country, than the country must come to the city. — Jens Jensen

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city. — Michael Bloomberg

The city is recruited from the country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. — Eric Schneiderman

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth. — Susan Eaton

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. — Rick Snyder

I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me. — Randy Moss

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city. — Fernando Pessoa

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same. — Woody Allen

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake. — Philip Reeve

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. — John Lanchester

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road ... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them. — Amin Maalouf

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store. — Edward I. Koch

I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life. — Dana Burnet

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country. — Jack Kelley

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap. — Nelson Algren

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. — Sloane Crosley

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country. — Charles Baudelaire

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. — Christopher Bollen

In the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life. — Mabel Osgood Wright

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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country. — Don Marquis

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. — Pearl S. Buck

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that's who I am. — Delia Ephron

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. — Anton Chekhov

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country. — Malcolm Forbes

Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do. — Tom Hodgkinson

You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city. — Randee Heller

I saw a mother who lose his country, city, home and children, but she had hijab between corpses. — Ali Rezavand Zayeri

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things. — Wayne Huizenga

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided. — Raymond Williams

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry. — William E. Conway Jr.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. — Trace Adkins

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country. — Mason Cooley

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime. — Enrique Pena Nieto

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country. — Dan Mangan

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

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. — Jules Renard

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. — Mason Cooley

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi. — Nicholas Kristof

We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King! — David Berg

Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling. — Mark Shields

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever. — Bubba Sparxxx

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. — Melina Marchetta

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland. — Yakov Smirnoff

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. — Fred Wilson

The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies. — Baha'u'llah

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet. — Tina Fey

Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger. — Ron Livingston

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders. — Nostradamus

The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country. — Alain Ducasse

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

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

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

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries. — Kevin Keegan

God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world — Sunday Adelaja

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. — Christian Louboutin

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life. — Beverly Cleary

She was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet — Salman Rushdie

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives. — Chelsea Clinton

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra. — Grandmaster Flash

who have overtaken city halls across the country's eastern half. Although the standoff in — Anonymous

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased. — Herbert Hoover

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America. — Marshall Brickman

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. — Lee Iacocca

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy. — Robert Stack

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. — Lori Lansens

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. — Theodore Roosevelt

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country. — Charlotte Casiraghi