City Character Quotes

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?

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets and buildings and little alleyways. The sense of the past was palpable. There were some bad modern buildings but there was a patina of age.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves.

Of course, every city has its own character, but I enjoy coming to Delhi.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.

I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.