Cities Quotes
Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.
My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.
Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....
There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!
We no longer produce laborers, we would rather pray to God to send laborers to come and build our cities
In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.
... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..."Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.
It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.
On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.
I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.
I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.
I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.
I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.
texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.