City Quotes - page 13

to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with wind. (Samuel R. Delany)
New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield. View quote
Scott Anderson
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. View quote
Tadao Ando
My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need? View quote
Frei Otto
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. View quote
Hermann Maier
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. View quote
Hermann Maier
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. (Hilary Mantel)
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook. View quote
Steffi Graf
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city. View quote
Vikas Swarup
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. View quote
Vince Vaughn
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. View quote
Graham Joyce
London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather. View quote
Graham Swift
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. View quote
Daniel Silva
Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. View quote
David Levithan
Here's what I was thinking about:1. Who the new threat was 2. The air show in Mexico City 3. How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5. Fang 6. Fang 7. Fang. (James Patterson)
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. View quote
John Sandford
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. View quote
Joshua Slocum