Believe Quote by Salman Rushdie

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it…

— Harry Connick, Jr

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit…

— Dar Williams

I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had “bad vibes.”

— Christopher Penczak

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice.…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city…

— Willa Cather

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

— Simon Van Booy

Some cities are really boring and straight.

— Johnny Marr

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau