2,160 Quotes About City

Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier.

Why should he start caring about the city now? He didn’t care before. It’s exactly what I’d expect from a douche bag like him.

I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty cables, steam, water, fire, subway trains and lava in the city's guts, the subterranean rumbling of trains and earthquakes. I thought of the dead souls from the war, concreted over.

If you want to love ​ Do so ​ To the ends of the earth​ With no shortcuts ​ Do so​ As the crow flies.​ Veronique Tadjo, As the crow flies​

I wanted to love the city. There is an electricity to the dullest day here that overpowers its clinging aroma. Friends have moved cityward, rarely seen again, each acting as though they relocated to Shangri-La, despite muggings and struggling.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

The wind embraces meMy shoes is all I seeI keep walkingThe cars singI’m searching for my sanityIn a crazy city

Sleeping is underrated in this city.

-Welcome to Phildelphia- No one leaves this beautiful city feeling the same way they came