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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

Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three-foot layer of man-eating jam. — Yahtzee Croshaw

I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what? — John Keats

The City is free of sin
The snow has given it absolution
A man who slips
A horse that falls
Oh no, the city is in a nightgown — Pierre Albert-Birot

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York. — Lewis Black

The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I. — Maria Dahvana Headley

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely. — Brian Koppelman

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people. — Victor Hugo

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. — C.S. Lewis

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone. — Sophocles

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously. — Philippe Petit

And the giants fall one by one, to fill the cup of Rot and Ruin. A city laid waste by the feats of man, never to rise again. — Audrey Grey

Can honor be expected of a man who is preparing to storm the city of his birth? — Salman Rushdie

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. — O. Henry

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

That which man builds man destroys, but the city of God is built by God and cannot be destroyed by man. AUGUSTINE — Charles W. Colson

Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames. — Betsy Schow

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped. — Andy Adams

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100) — Thomas Merton

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell — Will Rogers

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created. — Lewis Mumford

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. — Victor Hugo

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne. — A.S. Byatt

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin. — Swami Vivekananda

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. — Big Sean

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there. — Christian Bale

I'm going to put a diamond on you the size of a lighthouse beacon. There won't be a man in this city who doesn't know you're married. — Kristen Painter

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man. — Elizabeth Richards