Top City Quotes

There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it… this place, she decided, was called Smog City.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

City Definition

(n.) A large town.

(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.

(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.

…So, um, you’re from Rochester? Like, New York? Jersey asked.Yup, we used to live out there, Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. You ever been?Naw, the closest I’ve ever been to there would be… well, believ...

Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civiliz...

There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.

My mouth opened.It happened.Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling.Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices...

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

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation

they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun.

Fill this city of mine with people as,You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it...

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.