2,160 Quotes About City

जितना हम शहर में रहते हैं उससे भी ज़्यादा शहर हममें रहने लगता है।

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.

One of my greatest obsessions is the lights of a city. Through my eyes there is nothing so delicious and rich and lovely.

The San Francisco skyline sparkles in the distance, the bay spread out before it like a shark-infested welcome mat.

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged to no one and never would, or maybe it was a million cities in one, unique to each of its inhabitants, belonging to whoever walked its streets.

Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...

for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.