Benjamin Clementine Quotes

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

I grew up in New York.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Charlotte, it's what somebody from New York or L.A. would say is a small town, but it isn't. It's right in between being a small town and a city. It's more of a city.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

I live not too far from it in New York City.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.