City Quotes
What with the festival of grimness that is the news nowadays, it's high time for something lighthearted.
What quotes have you found that you love about your city? Book, movie, play, poem, or news article... What has someone said in a work of art or journalism about your city that you just happen to like? Did they say something that you thought snared the soul of your city just right? Was it something that describes your city or her people perfectly? Or was it something just plain weird that made you smile? For instance in today's edition of the local paper, an article started out thusly: Quote:
No, you have not. However, I would like to read what you've found about your city that you really appreciated. |
Great idea for a thread.
Sometimes I feel like Edward Abbey when I think about Phoenix: Quote:
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since i live a few blocks from where tennessee williams went to high school...
“I found St. Louisans cold, smug, complacent, intolerant, stupid and provincial. … I hate the place..." Tennessee Williams - buried in St. Louis. is this what you meant? |
Some of my favorite quotes about San Diego come from Alonzo Horton, founder of the city in the modern era, simply because of the sheer amount of affection he held for SD. If a man could marry a city, Horton would have made San Diego his bride in a heartbeat.
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A favorite of mine from early Omaha. Published in the paper in 1868
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My favourite is "an island in the sky" - suits everything, the foggy weather, the isolation, the cultural self-sufficiency, the beauty.
I like this quote from a U.S. serviceman during WWII that I read recently: http://i63.tinypic.com/28jku89.png A couple other favourites... "St. John's, Newfoundland, the most entertaining town in North America, suggesting to me sometimes a primitive San Francisco, sometimes Bergen in Norway, occasionally China, and often Ireland of long ago." - Jan Morris, Welsh travel writer. Lead paragraph in an Irish Times article - damn, they get us. :haha: "The residents of Newfoundland don’t like being called ‘Newfies’ or Canadians, but you can call them Irish. Newfoundland is not Canada, as the people there never tire of telling you. “Canada”, in this context, is not just a euphemism for “boring”, “law-abiding” or “flat”, the island only voted to join the confederation of provinces in 1948, and that vote was split 51 to 49 per cent – a cause of some abiding bitterness among the baymen, the former fishermen who live along these rocky shores." |
I'd rather be a lamppost in New York than mayor of chicago
-fiorello Laguardia |
^ LOL, I've never heard that one. Reminds me of one of my favorite "Arrested Development" quotes:
I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona |
"Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way."
- Officer Jimmy Malone |
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Goodness, there are so many, and former Mayor of Detroit Coleman A. Young has so many of the top spots...
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tennessee williams, who was of course culturally very southern, clashed with this cold teutonic wall head on, of course, but also had some terrible family relationships in st. louis, i believe his family basically locked him in barnes hospital as an adult. it was also terribly hard to be a semi-openly gay man during mid-century i imagine... |
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