City Quotes
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.
Clarence Day
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We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.
Andrea Phillips
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At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?
Jonathan Raban
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I don't want to be that bitter dude. Everyone finds their own special experience with the city no matter what.
Brian DeGraw
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong
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Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.
Plutarch
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When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
Anton Chekhov
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Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.
Plutarch
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I like playing at the U.S. Open because I like New York. It's a nice city. You can do anything there. It's one of my favourite cities in the world. I also like Indian Wells and Miami, too.
Caroline Wozniacki
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People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in... I've eaten it - there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America.
Andrew Zimmern
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I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.
Margaret Qualley
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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas
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We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
Yanis Varoufakis
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
Edwidge Danticat
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Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.
Lena Waithe
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
Barack Obama
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I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.
Kevin Plank
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I love New York City; I've got a gun.
Charles Barkley
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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
Lennie James
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I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
DeRay Mckesson
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The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.
David Hepworth
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I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon