2,160 Quotes About City

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

a city is all about how you look at it

My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors.

If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

Tıpkı, daha oluşumunu tamamlamakta olan bir gezegenin yüzeyi gibi, üzeri beton, taş, kiremit, ahşap ve pleksiglas ve kubbeyle kaplı inişli çıkışlı şehir parçacıkları, sanki ağır ağır aralanacaklar ve karanlığın içinden esrarlı yeraltının alev rengi aydınlığı sızacaktı.