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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
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
— Protagoras
In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
— Margaret Atwood
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.
— Cassandra Clare
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.
— Ilana Glazer
The cool, grey city of love.
— George Sterling
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
— Janine Benyus
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
— Calamity Jane
Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.
— Douglas Coupland
Be the best, not necessarily the original.
— I.M. Pei
Mumbai is not a city, it's a way of life
— Subhasis Das
Hell isn't some fiery pit "down there." It's right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town.
— Ellen Hopkins
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
— Mackenzie Davis
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
— Gore Vidal
It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?
— Kelly Braffet
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe
Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
— Russel Honore
Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. — Cassandra Clare
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. — Cassandra Clare
They say that every person, every venture, every city has a place where the road splits and you have to choose your direction.
— Guy A Johnson
If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.
— Maria Schell
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
I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time.
— Graeme Simsion
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
— Gina Greenlee
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
— Rashida Jones
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.
— Holly Madison
You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.
— Marina Tavares Dias
In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.
— Edmund White
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
— James Baldwin
Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.
— Sam Palladio
She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out.
— Emma Donoghue
A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy ...
— Theodore Dreiser
I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
— Sarah McLachlan
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.
— Grace Paley
There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter
— Vicki Pettersson
I was standing in the doorway when he said hi," Amy said. "And from the look on his face, what he has for you is not the key to the city.
— Jennifer Crusie
Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb.
— Anais Nin
L.A. is my American city.
— Tom Ford
I just would like to spend more time in New York City.
— Scott Speedman
Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you.
— Cassandra Clare
Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
— Kahlil Gibran
You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
— Jerry Moran
If all the women in the city fought like that, muggers would take up safer occupations, like wrestling rabid tigers.
— J.C. Nelson
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
— Martin Lel
Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory
she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.
— Lauren Gilley
Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it.
— Eddie Huang
There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.
— Steen Langstrup
What did you give to the city, Montag?
Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury
Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury
Sarah in the City of Moon' is about building bridges not walls.'-Fida Qutob
— Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob
She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart.
— Sarah J. Maas
I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
— Tina Fey
And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.
— Jacqueline Koyanagi
By 1900, electric delivery wagons, trucks, buses, ambulances, and taxis were roaming city streets across the country.
— Seth Fletcher
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
— Mario Testino
Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky
— Kate Tempest
I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
At chaos' core lies the invitation.
— Gina Greenlee
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
— Edward Moore
on - that verse from Jeremiah - if you seek the welfare of the city where you are, you'll find your own welfare there too.
— Kristen Ethridge
Mesopotamia
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi
tube or 2 of these water purification tablets at your home or in your car. If there was ever a shortage or damage to the city supply, you would
— Jon Woodward
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
— Rachel Hartman
While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company."
"We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus. — Cassandra Clare
"We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus. — Cassandra Clare
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
— Alan Brien
And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?
— Garth Risk Hallberg
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
— Michael Bloomberg
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
— Brooke Astor
People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
— Christine Quinn
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice,
— Illmaculate
The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
— Orhan Pamuk
It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city
— Cheryl Strayed
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
— Ryan Tedder
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ...
— Hilda Doolittle
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.
— L. Frank Baum
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
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
— Margaret Mead