2,405 Quotes About Cities

Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down.

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

If the city was dreaming," he told me, "then the city is asleep. And I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious around their rivers and estuaries, like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and harmless things.""What I fear," he said, "is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

It almost felt as if Istanbul had become a blissful metropolis, romantically picturesque, just like Paris, thought Zeliha; not that she had ever been to Paris.

Αυτή η πόλη, γέροντα, φταίει. Να το ξέρεις, μου φέρνει ένα τρέμουλο στην ψυχή και μια αγωνία"."Δύσκολος τόπος είναι μόνο ο εαυτός μας".

Nonc looks out on the city. It looks like one of those end-times Bible paintings where everything is large and impressive, but when you look close, in all the corners, some major shit is befalling people.

Men came to cities like this to get good and lost for a long time, maybe even forever.Well, I never remembered coming here, but I was lost, that was for damned sure.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.