2,405 Quotes About Cities

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.

Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

The cities and towns have paid to train the officers. They will have to pay to train their replacements.