City Life Quotes
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City Life Quotes & Sayings
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The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
— Vance Bourjaily
Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?
— Candace Bushnell
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
— Ann Douglas
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
— Jane Austen
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
— Ransom Riggs
Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.
— Christy Hall
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
— William, Saroyan
Mumbai is not a city, it's a way of life
— Subhasis Das
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
— Aldous Huxley
At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.
— Sarah Pekkanen
We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
— Rachel L. Schade
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
— Mark McGinty
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
— Janet Echelman
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.
— Katharine Lee Bates
I prefer the school of life.
— Cassandra Clare
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.
— Cassandra Clare
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
My life was far from Sex and the City. It was more like Sex and the Pity. Or Sex and the Shitty.
— Vi Keeland
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 main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
— Robert Silverberg
Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
— Albert Bigelow Paine
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William Kennedy
I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.
— James Patterson
The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.
— Jennifer Stone
Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.
— Edgerrin James
Hardest thing to face in life is isolation in your own city
— Sunil Sharma
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
— Majora Carter
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
Take responsibility for the city
— Sunday Adelaja
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
Mumbai is not a city, it's life...
— Subhasis Das
It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody
— John Lanchesterter
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.
— Bernie Brillstein
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
— Henry James
Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed.
— Donald O'Donovan
I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.
— Vitali Klitschko
Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City.
— Melissa Joan Hart
You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.
— Nickolas Ashford
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.
— John De Ruiter
You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.
— Elizabeth Richards
The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.
— Wilkie Collins
No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
— Melina Marchetta
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
— Hope Edelman
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
— Colson Whitehead
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
— Leon Askin
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.
— Anne Rice
I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.
— Cassandra Clare
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
— Gina Greenlee
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
— James Baldwin
What did you give to the city, Montag?Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
— Robbie Robertson
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot makethe journey, still they moan and beat
against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city. — D.H. Lawrence
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
— Wallace Stevens
WHAT CAN YOU SPEND BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK????TIME!
CHOOSE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH WISELY. — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
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
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
— Tony Bennett
A great American city is fighting for its life.
— Marc Morial
Commerce is the life blood of the City. If we are not careful, government will become the cancer.
— Andrew Ryan
You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful about that saying.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.
— Stephanie Clifford
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
— Francis Picabia
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
— Alan Rickman
Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City ...
— Christy Hall
We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
— Fennel Hudson
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
— Henry David Thoreau