2,405 Quotes About Cities

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.

Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately, my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the city.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

The present system makes it completely impractical for towns and cities to form their own power companies. The new legislation makes it much more favorable and fair for that to occur.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.