Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means pretending to be a lion.It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
Anthony Burgess
The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
Robert Burton
Boris Johnson has real contempt for Londoners. He hates that we celebrate each other's heritage; he hates that we try to pass on a healthy environment to our children; he hates that we look after our most vulnerable neighbours; and most of all he hates that we all expect to share in our city's financial success.
Sian Berry
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
David Brinkley
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.
William Seward Burroughs
Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.
Whittaker Chambers
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
Giacomo Casanova
Their daughter, who would be the half-sister of Alexander the Great and, later the wife of Cassander, was appropriately named Thessalonike, to commemorate Philip's victory in Thessaly. In 315 Cassander founded at or near the site of ancient Therme the great city that still bears her name.
Eugene N. Borza
I have climbed highest mountains,I have run through the field,only to be with you.I have run,I have crawled,I have scaled these city walls,only to be with you.But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Paul David Hewson
Please start doin you. I been doin me. And Im a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.
Drake
I blew myself up, Im on some martyr shit. Carry the weight for my city like a cargo ship.
Drake
Took over my city and I never asked permission to.
Drake