Quotes about ancient cities. Statuses about the city

Most people leave Small town to dream of going back there. And others stay to dream of leaving there.

Chuck Palahniuk. Rant: A Biography of Buster Casey

City at street level is not so attractive. But if you look up...

500 days of Summer

It's time to destroy this city! Or at least repainted in a different color.

sponge Bob Square Pants

A city becomes a world when you love one of those who live in it.

Lawrence Durrell. justine

Love for this or that city is conditioned by the feelings that one had to experience in it, and not by the city itself.

Marlene Dietrich

It turns out that there is such a pleasure - to wander through the empty streets at random, not knowing the way. Alien, incomprehensible city. Alien, incomprehensible life.
But real. The most there is.

Boris Akunin. Mistress of Death

Most wonderful city this is where one is happy.

Erich Maria Remarque. Night in Lisbon

What a blessing that in the sleeping areas they live like in a remote province. Otherwise, it would be impossible to get to the good, but, having reached it, not to get there. However, that's just the misfortune, that's why you have to go somewhere.

"Elena Ermolova"

The bigger the city, the stronger the loneliness. And this is the biggest city.

Evgeny Grishkovets. Shirt

Nowhere, in any city in the world, do the stars shine as brightly as in the city of childhood.

Carnival Night

Now the whole world is standing on the edge, looking down at the damn hell. All those liberals, intellectuals, sweet talkers. And for some reason, suddenly no one knows what to say. This one is below me terrible city, he screams like a slaughterhouse full of mentally retarded children, and the night stinks of fornication and a guilty conscience.

Guardians

Living in cities teaches you to look only at your feet. The fact that there is a sky in the world, no one will remember ...

Haruki Murakami. 1Q84

From those who have forgotten me, you can make a city.

Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky

... I generally like to leave, because without leaving one city it is rather difficult to come to another, and I like to come more than anything else.

Max Fry. big cart

Some tourists think that Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, many people find sin.

John Green. The stars are to blame

It is enough to arrive at five in the morning in an unfamiliar city. This is all.

Max Fry. big cart

In this city, everyone loves loneliness, and even if they don’t, they are still alone.

Janusz Leon Wisniewski. Bikini

If you are looking for a person in a big city and have no idea where he might be, then instead of rushing around the city in search of him, it is better to sit somewhere in the center and sit there waiting until the one you you seek, he will not come to you.

Eustein Gorder. orange girl

The rivers have cooled down, and the earth has cooled down, And houses have slightly ruffled. It's warm and damp in the city, It's warm and damp in the city, And outside the city - winter, winter, winter.

Leonid Derbenev

Still, the hometown is a high concentration of impressions. Not something specific, but all at once. Strong, weak, joyful and sad - such a powerful stream that you just choke.

Elchin Safarli. You were promised to me

One of the most simple ways to love the city in which you live - from time to time to look at it through the eyes of a stranger (unless, of course, an evil fate has thrown you into a very vile hole).

Max Fry. Quiet City

I love the forest. It is difficult to live in cities: there are too many lustful people there.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Thus spoke Zarathustra

That's the advantage of tiny towns - without any effort on your part, everyone knows everything about you.

Paulo Coelho. Devil and Senorita Prim

The brighter the city, the darker its shadow... This is obvious. And the darker the city gets, the darker the people get. I do not know what they are looking for, but they themselves cannot illuminate their hearts.

Void's Edge: Garden of Sinners

In a big city you can see more, but in a small city you can hear more.

Jean Cocteau

There are a million such towns in the world. And each one is just as dark, just as lonely, each one is just as detached from everything, each one has its own horrors and its own secrets.

Ray Bradbury. Dandelion wine

Surviving, winning in a big city, she becomes infected with the virus of indifference, without noticing it herself. It is difficult to keep the warmth in oneself where it is easier to be cold ... and more comfortable.

Elchin Safarli. I'll come back

Any city ceases to be hostile as soon as you eat and drink in it. (The city seems alien to a person until he eats and drinks in it.)

Erich Maria Remarque. love thy neighbour

Walking through an unfamiliar city, if you haven’t worn out your legs, don’t collapse from fatigue, have at least a little money in your pocket, and a few days left, is one of the most enjoyable activities in the world.

Sergey Lukyanenko. Clean copy

It is said that the streets and houses keep the memory of moments of happiness experienced by loving souls. It's probably just a beautiful legend, but this morning I need to believe in it ....

Mark Levy. First night

Nowhere and never, in any city in the world, believe me, it's true, the stars do not shine as brightly and captivatingly as in the city of childhood.

All my generation are loners, we are deaf to each other, like a bird diving; busy with their own business, we hear nothing around; hiding in peaceful marriages, we dream of that one, condemned to a lonely plate and dinner in silence; we saw the cities, not the people in them.

Milorad Pavic. Landscape painted with tea

If the essence of life is information transmitted through genes, then society and culture are nothing more than an additional giant system for the accumulation and storage of information. That is, the city is a giant external device for storing information.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Tired of reading "Oblomov"
And expect good weather from women,
Tired of being soft, gentle, unnecessary,
Tired of living in the city
Where the authorities are afraid of snow
And the traffic cops say hello
With expensive cars.
Tired of being an adult
Who knows everything
But nothing can.

Alik Yakubovich. flying fish

Theodore Dreiser. Sister Kerry

There is a city in the world without which the world would be a better place...

Dogville

You can take cities and win battles, but you can't subdue an entire nation.

George Bernard Shaw

I looked at the clock - it was five o'clock in the morning, but neither she nor I even felt sleepy, because there was a neurosis in the air of this city, which the inhabitants there take for energy.

Evelyn Waugh. Return to Brideshead

Waiting and hoping is a sure way to suddenly go crazy, but running around the city and doing stupid things is exactly what you need!

Soldiers surrender cities, generals take them.

Alexander Tvardovsky

You can build your future from anything. From some crumbs or sparks. From the desire to move forward, slowly, one step after another. You can build a spacious city on the ruins.

Lauren Oliver

The problem with small towns is that everyone thinks they know who you are.

The killer inside of me

I am perhaps more attracted to the complete freedom of life in a wild country than the beauty of nature. There a person can really preserve his human dignity, not like in our cities.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

After the break, certain streets, places, even times become forbidden! The city turns into a desolate battlefield filled with mines of memories. You have to carefully watch where you step, otherwise you will be torn to pieces ....

I have always believed that the things you don't choose make you who you are: your city, your neighborhood, your family.

Moscow is a city where money can be made out of thin air.

Love is not a mirror pond into which you can gaze forever. It has ebb and flow. And the wreckage of wrecked ships, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold, and pearls ... But pearls - they lie very deep.

My life does not belong to me. I live in a city where I don't want to be. I live a life that I don't want to live.

Whoever decides to conquer the capital must be stronger than her. This city does not forgive weakness and does not believe in tears...

Not old age is the surest sign of maturity, but the ability not to get confused, waking up on a busy street in the city center in your underwear.

They finished simultaneously, in different parts of the city, each on their own shelf of human high-rise buildings.

Warm days have returned to the city. They returned with redoubled affection, as unfaithful wives return. All day long frivolous, restless clouds wandered across the sky, and dry, fried autumn leaves densely lay on the ground silently, without a rustle. For several days the city seemed to be in a warm and kind of blissful swoon, it indulged in autumn, this changeable liar, and did not believe, did not want to believe in the imminent onset of cold weather ...

Dina Rubina

Waiting and hoping is a sure way to suddenly go crazy, but running around the city and doing stupid things is exactly what you need!

Hometown is not the one in which you started your life, but the one in which you want to end it.

I'm not sure that I really exist. I am all the writers I've read, all the people I've met, all the women I've loved, and all the cities I've been to.

I'm not just going crazy, but I'm tired over the summer. You climb into the chest of drawers for a shirt, and the day is lost. Hurry up, or something, winter came and brought it all - cities, people, but for starters, greenery.

Joseph Brodsky

Autumn depressingly covers the city with leaves, Corroding paint with a wet mood.

The Germans can destroy the city, destroy its treasures, leave us without heat and light, but they are not allowed to destroy faith in the souls of people!

Alexander Chakovsky

I will go where you are. I don't need anything else. I don't need student council anymore. I don't need good grades anymore. I no longer need smart comrades. I don't want to meet spring in another city. I want to meet her with you. This is enough for me.

Some tourists think that Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in fact it is a city of freedom. It's just that in conditions of freedom, the majority chooses sin.

While my crazy city swallows funny dreams, And lays noisy streets with maple hearts, Lord, I beg you, button up my soul with all buttons, So that I don’t completely disappear until spring

The city lies in darkness... It's winter again...

... the town turned out to be photogenic, albeit the ass of the world.

Max Fry. big cart

There is nothing better than spending the summer in the woods, giving your head a rest before studying and returning home, to the city, to the noise, the cold, the dirty air, where there are too many people in too limited space.

Simon Hawk

Every city has its own smell. And the smell of each thing betrays its provincial homeland.

"Elsa Triole"

The city is melting in a flock in the darkness, Autumn, what did I know about you? How many leaves will be torn, Autumn is always right.

The sun was shining and people were moving vigorously. It was an asphalt spring, it was one of those spring days of autumn that do not belong to any season, which cities conjure up.

Robert Musil.

The pursuit of history is always present in Barcelona. For me, cities are organisms, living beings. For me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And this is a very self-satisfied woman.

Of course, if you want to look at the two most important things - how a person lives and how nature lives - you must come here, to the ravine. After all, the city, in the end, is just a big ship battered by storms, it is full of people, and everyone is busy tirelessly - they scoop out water, chip off the rust.

Ray Bradbury

We justify by necessity everything we do. When we bomb cities it is a strategic necessity, but when our cities are bombed it is a heinous crime.

Erich Maria Remarque "A Time to Live and a Time to Die"

Sometimes it seems to me that we are the most bad family in the city. - Maybe we should move to a bigger city?

If you fall because of your mother, she will help you to your feet. If you fall in the city, no one will help you up.

A big city where your dreams come true for someone else.

Elchin Safarli

Well, where, where, in Leningrad! - In which Leningrad? The city is long gone! - There is no city, but the 3rd street of the Builders remains ...

They say that in a big city people are more tolerant than in the provinces. No, it's just indifference.

The big city is a miserable, helpless monster. Everything that it consumes must be delivered to it.

What matters is not the seclusion of the place, but independence. The poets who lived in the cities still remained hermits.

R. Emerson

Entire cities can be built on naked love. The easiest way to find her is to leave the house and go nowhere.

Country mansions of the rich, as a rule, are neither in the village nor in the city.

Why does no one whom I ask about their favorite city name the city where they were born and live?
- I don't know, dear... Perhaps we were all scattered around the world and mixed in it so that everyone would look for their own place. Heart.

Elchin Safarli. If you could know…

Protect the city, fight in the wasteland, knowing both grief and happiness; Then the spirit-bearing powder will rise, filling the tripod, blushing.

Zhang Bo-duan "Chapters on insight into the truth"

From the city until spring, having packed a suitcase, joy left for the south.

You said that the city is strength, but here everyone is weak ...
- The city is an evil force ... The strong come, become weak, the city takes strength ... So you are gone!

Well, that's great, - Benjamin said optimistically, catching his breath. - The farther from the city, the quieter and cleaner the air. - And the beast is more fearless! Polina said happily.

Olga Gromyko

Happiness is when you have a big, friendly, caring, loving family in another city.

George Burns

Who can say where the city ends and the wilderness begins? Who's to say, does the city grow into it or does it move into the city?

Ray Bradbury

Traveling so much, she discovered one amazing thing for herself: none of the lights of the city at night can compare with the beauty of the lights that illuminate her native land. And even the stars in the sky shine brighter where your home is.

The lights of the night city, it's like someone launched hundreds of fireworks at the same time.

Okay, I get it, every city needs its idiot...

I began to vaguely understand how much tempting a big city is fraught with: wealth, grace, comfort - everything that can adorn a woman.

Theodore Dreiser

The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

I'll drown the whole city in blood, if only you were whole.

In France. Metro.
- Escalators are not long, apparently, and the depth is not very big, it's not like in my hometown - St. Petersburg, it's been half a day there and back.

… at night the city is an inverted sky.

Before you - quotes, aphorisms and witty sayings about cities. This is a rather interesting and extraordinary selection of the most real "pearls of wisdom" on this topic. Here are collected entertaining witticisms and sayings, clever thoughts of philosophers and well-aimed phrases of the masters of the colloquial genre, brilliant words of great thinkers and original statuses from social networks, as well as much more...

Promotions, discounts and offers

If any of the perfumes seem worthy of your attention, you can get more detailed information about it and its promotional price by clicking on the appropriate link...

In a small town, people are willing to sympathize with other people's troubles, and if you don't have them, they will gladly fix it.

A fashionable building in ten years will lose its youth and become obsolete. It will become less unpleasant to the eye in two hundred years, when the fashion will be forgotten.
Stendhal.

If these old walls could talk, how boring they would be!
Robert Benchley.

In a big city you can see more, but in a small city you can hear more.
Jean Cocteau.

Machines spawned the suburbs and killed the city.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson.

New York is a city where a car and good manners are of little use to a person.
Minion McLaughlin.

New York: a city where everyone rebels, but no one despairs.
Harry Hershfield.

Venice is like a box of chocolates and liquor eaten in one sitting.
Truman Capote.

Paris is an inhabited loneliness.
Francois Mauriac.

Buildings should be good neighbors for a person.
Paul Tyree.

This is a world famous person in our city.

Geneva is the largest small city in the world.
De La Reve.

When I come to Paris, I only dine in a restaurant on eiffel tower. This is the only place where this monstrous structure is not visible.
William Morris.

I cannot resent the act of Herostratus until I see the architecture of the temple of Diana in Ephesus.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Venice would be a wonderful city if drained.
Attributed to Ulysses Grant.

Dressed in this way, and not otherwise, a woman promises herself to a greater or lesser extent. A provincial woman trying to follow the fashion in Paris promises herself in the most absurd form and thereby ridicules herself. Provincial women who come to Paris should first dress as if they were already thirty years old.
Stendhal.

Her eyes are quite beautiful for a provincial.
Jean Baptiste Gresse.

And the dog in the capital barks more centrally.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

A girl can rather count on success in the capital, a guy in the provinces.

A doctor can bury his mistake, an architect can only cover the walls with ivy.
Frank Lloyd Wright.

Solitude is to be found in big cities.
Rene Descartes.

Moscow became the capital thanks to its advantageous geographic location between south, north, east and west.
From the work of a Petersburg schoolboy.

A small town is locality in which everyone knows everything about everyone but buys the local paper to find out what the editor dares to write about.
Danny Kay.

A small town is a place where, with all your will, you cannot go where you should not be.
Alexander Walcott.

London - wonderful place for life if you can get away from it.
Arthur Balfour.

It is not enough to be a genius, one must also live in the capital.
Arkady Davidovich.

Killers and architects always return to the scene of the crime.
Peter Ustinov.

Los Angeles: Seventy-Two Suburbs in Search of a City.
Dorothy Parker.

Painting is an art to look at; sculpture is an art that can be walked around; architecture is an art that one can pass through.
Dan Rice.

A city in which you are unlucky always seems uninteresting in architecture.
Emil Krotky.

A small town is a nice place where the neighbors keep an eye on your wife.

write poems about the city only a person who is sincerely attached to his small homeland, who knows this area inside and out, can. Only in this case is he able to convey all the uniqueness created by the same people. We know a lot of poems about the city, which is the capital of Russia - about Moscow, about the city that rightfully deserved the status cultural capital- about St. Petersburg. (Although someone, perhaps, only at the word "Leningrad" feels warmth, he is embraced by memories of joys and sorrows.) But we are no less interested in poems about cities, the names of which we learn only from such works. All this literary work has one thing in common: wherever a person lives, he considers the city where he spent his childhood, youth, maturity, the best on earth.

Urban lyrics can be filled with luxurious epithets, graceful metaphors. This is a desire to elevate, glorify your beloved city. However, closest to the reader were and remain simple words of a person who walks aimlessly down the street and notices small but very important details. Of these, in fact, consists of the same, "real city ​​life". Principle “what I see, I sing” in poems about the city especially welcome. Here everything is seen without embellishment, and we ourselves can make the right picture in our imagination.

Reading city poems, we can discover new sides of different places around the world unknown to us. Or maybe someone such works will be able to inspire thoughts about the journey? One way or another, we see the city through the prism of the author's perception. And this is doubly interesting.

The collection includes phrases and quotes about the city and the village:

• I looked at my watch - it was past five in the morning, but neither she nor I even felt sleepy, for there was a neurosis in the air of this city, which the inhabitants there take for energy. Evelyn Waugh. Return to Brideshead.
• Hello! is this CC? Whites in the city! Film "Deja Vu"
• I began to vaguely understand how much tempting a big city is fraught with: wealth, grace, comfort - everything that can adorn a woman. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Kerry
• In a big city you can see more, but in a small city you can hear more. Jean Cocteau

• I know them all: they are all swindlers, the whole city is like that: a swindler sits on a swindler and drives a swindler. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Dead Souls.
• There is no less intelligence in the provinces than in Paris, but in most cases he remains unemployed here. Etienne Rey
• The brighter the city, the darker its shadow... Edge of the Void: Garden of Sinners: Murder Investigation
• Where I was carried for three days - I don’t remember, but I left for the city of Saratov. Film "GongOfer"
• A metropolitan resident for a provincial woman is the same as for a metropolitan resident - a man from higher spheres. J. La Bruyère
• The city is the teacher of man. Civilization V
• The walls of cities are built from the wreckage of village houses. At the sight of each palace being built in the capital, I seem to see how the whole region is being ruined. Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Two capitals cannot equally flourish in one state, just as two hearts do not exist in the human body. Alexander Pushkin
• For some time now, I have taken the words “My dear capital” exclusively literally ...
• The village fled to the city, capturing the capital. Arkady Davidovich
• A province is not a place, but a state of mind. Manfred Rommel
• And the dog in the capital barks more centrally. Stanislav Jerzy Lec
• 
  Provincialism is a pronounced feeling of capitalism. Gennady Malkin
• Every city has its own smell. And the smell of each thing betrays its provincial homeland. Elsa Triolet. Luna park
• Paris is a populated desert; a provincial town is a desert without loneliness. François Mauriac
• What a blessing that in the sleeping areas they live like in a remote province. Otherwise, it would be impossible to get to the good, but, having reached it, not to get there. However, that's just the misfortune, that's why you have to go somewhere. Elena Ermolova
• He lives in the capital, and the province in it. Savo Martinovich
• A small town is a nice place where the neighbors keep an eye on your wife.
• Night city. In a light fog, the light of the streets is washed out - this is how a short-sighted or crying person sees the lanterns. Or a wretch with no prospects. Elchin Safarli. You were promised to me
• Minin and Pozharsky will save Moscow from Russia! Arkady Davidovich
• A small town is a place where you can't go where you shouldn't be, no matter how much you want to. Alexander Walcott
• Moscow collects extremes. The smartest, the most sincere, the richest give away the surplus, and it turns out that happiness and unhappiness to the maximum turn into a mass prosperous middle ground. Elena Ermolova
• On the outskirts, in the capital, a hundred people are hanging around: the door to the capital is being boarded up. Vladimir Borisov
• Moscow how much this sound has merged for the Russian heart! How much resonated in it! Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Eugene Onegin
• I hope the horses of light find me in Cincinnati. Everything comes ten years later. Will Rogers

• I was offered from the provinces to write cheaper thoughts for them for a smaller fee. Stanislav Jerzy Lec
• A small town is such a locality where everyone knows everything about everyone, but they buy a local newspaper to find out what the editor dared to write about .. Danny Kay
• It is not enough to be a genius, one must also live in the capital. Arkady Davidovich
• Dressed in this way, and not otherwise, a woman promises herself to a greater or lesser extent. A provincial woman trying to follow the fashion in Paris promises herself in the most absurd form and thereby ridicules herself. Provincial women who come to Paris should first dress as if they were already thirty years old. Stendhal
• Culture is born in the provinces, degenerates in the capitals, and in this form returns to the provinces. Henrik Worzell
• He read the city like a book, like a story about invisible buildings absorbed in history. Seis Noteboom
• Moscow became the capital due to its advantageous geographical position - between the south, north, east and west.
• Anyone can become the most popular person in the city if they find a small enough city.
• It seems to be very important for the city to be able to talk to people in a language they understand. Max Fry. big cart
• Of a hundred faces, my capital, the rest - the limit! Vladimir Borisov
• The provincial tone is always harsh, it appeals not to the spirit and intellect, but to blood, to feelings ... it prefers not to persuade, but to scold. M. Arnold
• The earth's axis passes through the center of every city and town in the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

We have such a big city that there is not enough good weather for everyone.

A city becomes a world when you love one of those who live in it.

I don't want to fall asleep in a city I don't want to wake up in.

4.2 / 5 ( 4 votes)

I'm wandering somewhere! Search the streets of the city.

There is so much energy in a person that it would be enough to illuminate the whole city for a whole week ...

It's snowing in the city, cold, traffic jams, slippery ... but the mood is FESTIVE =)

In a big city you can see more, but in a small city you can hear more.

Someday I will take off my ten-centimeter stilettos and go for a walk around the city ...

Gray city, wet asphalt, lonely people... Who needs this spring???

Ah, if only The eternal City not tormented by eternal traffic jams.

Smell big city. Dirty thoughts. And expensive things.

People find each other all over the world, and you and I got lost in the same city ...

Cities are like women, each with its own special smell.

When rain falls from above, When eyes look up from below, People and cities become cleaner.

They climbed onto the highest roof in the city and melted into each other)

It is amazing, incomprehensible, how a big city can become empty with the departure of one person...

The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

I was born in the last millennium, in a city and a country that no longer exists.

Two cities... Two hearts... And one feeling...

The lights of the big city are always so beckoning ... but you always get burned about them ...

Solitude is to be found in big cities

Like a child's drawing on the pavement, my whole life is on the city map...

The brighter the city, the darker its shadow...

Statuses about hometown

Happy birthday, our most beautiful city! How beautiful you are at sunset, and your dawn is also wonderful.

Nowhere, in any city in the world, do the stars shine as brightly as in the city of childhood.

Only in a foreign city can you understand how much you love your own!

Well, what a city - not a single unfamiliar face.

My hometown will be the one where my eyes will be happy.

I am very strongly connected with my city, because I am its extension.

My city, baby, is Heaven! Look and freak out!

Statuses about another city

Soon I will do the craziest thing of my life. I will go to the store for bread and go to another city to you ...

The law of meanness: all good guys live in another city ...

This is very correct - to come to a foreign city in the morning. By train, plane, whatever. The day starts with a clean slate...

I could spend my whole life walking around a new city every day.

Moving to another city is like being born again!

Statuses about the night city

The city, by its very nature, breeds insomnia and knows no rest itself.

At night, the city looks mysterious and dreamy, you want to dream and relax with it.

At night, a special smell, color, just at night the city looks special

At night, the city is even more beautiful than during the day, it is simply magnificent.

I like the summer night or evening city, when the lanterns shine and the green leaves on the trees are illuminated.

car, speed, night, night city, favorite music ... cool ...

TOP 10 - The most beautiful cities in the world