2,160 Quotes About City

...to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New York, they'd likely just tell him Get over it . . . Was it possible that the last month had been a kind of judgement on him for ever daring to pretend that anything meant anything at all?

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

This was The City, India's biggest, a huge city, but people heard and responded to what was happening in your life. Sometimes, this much was enough.

You could put all the French or Italian you wanted in their names, but you couldn't take Mumbai out of the buildings: the clothes drying outside the windows would remain, and so would the mud streaks from flowerpots on windowsills.

There was plenty of anger on offer in Mumbai and it was easy to look away. But every once in a while, someone with imagination crafted their fury like origami into something delightful.

It will be okay, you will be okay. They call this the spirit of Bombay.

Mi ciudad es una ciudad imaginada.La real es memoria que se pierde entre los dedos.My city is an imagined city.The real one is a memory slipping through fingers.

In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.