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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. — Vance Havner

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) — Augustine Of Hippo

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city. — Mason Cooley

LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you. — Tom Spanbauer

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. — Leon Battista Alberti

the Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help. — John Calvin

I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture. — Terry Tempest Williams

The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God. — Augustine Of Hippo

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too — Gilbert Arenas

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire. — Evan Osnos

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. — Jeff Hawkins

Why is the station so far out of the city limits anyway? Most likely a collusion between the builders of stations and the builders of long roads. — Michael Cisco

'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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. — Charles Dudley Warner

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. — David Harvey

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being. — Kim Cattrall

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy. — Austin Mahone

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. — Deborah Kerr

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. — John F. Kennedy

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. — Bernie Taupin

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America. — Rick Perry

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. — Marat Safin

What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion. — Monika Chiang

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

The end is uncertain and I've never been so afraid
But I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope
And that makes me feel brave. — Owl City

Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go. — James Belushi

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. — Wendell Berry

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits. — Paul Vixie

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

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

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe. — Jose Mourinho

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. — Raina Telgemeier

Biking is a good alternative. Use the city as your gym. — Ilana Glazer

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. — Padma Lakshmi

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution, — Jaime Lerner

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. — Herb Caen

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology. — Hooman Majd

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. — Mason Cooley

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. — Gayle Forman

The storerooms are full of hearts.
This is the city of spare parts. — Sylvia Plath

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. — Theophile Gautier

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. — Lenny Kravitz

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!' — Bayard Taylor

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

the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature — Timothy J. Keller

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. — Harry S. Truman

The braid is always stronger than the strand. — Ryan Graudin

Every inn in the city is full, and the whores are walking bowlegged and jingling with each step. — George R R Martin

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views. — Christine Quinn

In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town. — W.C. Fields

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. — Graham Joyce

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see. — Garth Risk Hallberg

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city. — Matthew Specktor

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food. — Emeril Lagasse

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. — Philip Hone

Of bones the city is made,
Plastered with flesh and blood,
Where decay and death are deposited,
And pride, and ingratitude. — Gautama Buddha

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers. — Logan Green

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? — Woody Allen

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve — Alan Parry

New York is a wonderful city ... It is going to be the capital of the world. — John Steinbeck

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city. — Rita Ora

In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum

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

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been. — Lisa Ling

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial. — Richard Montanari

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. — Peter Hambleton

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America, — Dave Grohl

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance. — Aslaug Magnusdottir

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.' — Jay McInerney

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder. — A.C. Grayling

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

The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone. — Joe Meno

Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related. — Mallory Jansen

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

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

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

We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic. — Raf Simons

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else. — Edna Buchanan

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. — Studs Terkel

I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States. — Erin Heatherton

Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration. — David Sutcliffe

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

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. — Julie Christie

I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible. — Rosecrans Baldwin

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

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

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time. — Cassie Steele

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life. — Majora Carter

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. — Anatoly Karpov

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. — Guillermo Del Toro

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

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city. — Ardal O'Hanlon

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out. — Dan Gilroy

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. — Joe Lhota