2,160 Quotes About City

you and ibelong to this city this city which we both love this city of stupa and chanting of temple and arati of church and hymn of masjid and namazof gurudwara and gurbani this city of love and affection this city of culture and tradition this city reachingfor a modern sky yet its roots deep and ancient! you and ibelong to this city this city which we both love.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

Every step of the road was just as she'd dreamt it all the time she'd been away. Every step took her further away from the smoke and the noise and the loneliness and fear of the city she'd left behind. Every step drew her deeper into the hollows of the landscape, the green hills and shining rivers and mist-tangled treetops.

Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.

In town a man can live for a hundred years without noticing that he has long been dead and has rotten away.

Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. Whatever that majority thought might be - that is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don't really belong there.

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

The city is courting bites, asks me to polish silver, making sounds fit for no one's ears.