Cities Quote by Anatole Broyard

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,…

— Nina Berberova

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both…

— Marcus Aurelius

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

— Anthony Burgess

I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old…

— Andy Cohen

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized…

— Raymond Burr

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the…

— Conor Oberst

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

— Wallace Stevens

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

— Herb Caen

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee