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City Quotes
Every city leaves its own kind of mark.
Several of these quotes settle on New York specifically - raising children there, chasing a ballet career through its top companies, or building a life around it after moving from elsewhere. Others reflect on falling in love with a campus city the way you'd love Paris. See Cities Quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
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This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.
- Man
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
- People
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But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
- Handkerchief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
- Greatest City
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.
- Permission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020