City Quotes

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Light
- Cities
- Sympathy
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Dirk Benedict
- Time
- Success
- Health

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Joe Sacco
- City
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Philip Gibbs
- City
- Morning
- Paris
As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.

Kelly Price
- Life
- Home
- Success
The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.

Marcia Muller
- Life
- World
- Women
Not I, but the city teaches.

Socrates
- City
- Teaches
In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop?

Anthony Trollope
- Important
- City
- Question