Cities Quote by Charles Bukowski

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what…

— Roscoe Mitchell

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

— Jonathan Raban

I was a stranger in the city. Out of town were the people I knew. I had that feeling of self-pity.

— Beegie Adair

I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being…

— Kate Klise

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made…

— Gareth Barry

I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

— Pat Smear

Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with…

— Hanif Kureishi

“You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.”

— Marina Tavares Dias

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

— Henry Williamson

“I shook my head. "it's not about living in a city." It wasn't. Back then, it wasn't just getting away. It was about not…

— Kat Rosenfield

I gave my blood sweat and tears to New York City and New Jersey - a small-town kid coming from Aliquippa, Pa., coming to…

— Darrelle Revis