City Nostalgia Quotes

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

I just absolutely adore Denver and the Boulder area. Having lived there several times, it feels like home to me.

I've always liked lost, old New York.

I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

I love New York: it reminds me a bit of London.

I love New York. New York made me the man that I am, and I always rep it to the fullest, but right now it's completely different from what it was and anybody that says it's for the better is straight up lyin'. Straight up lyin'!

I love Portland and I have so much history there and I knew it like the back of my hand, so the decision to leave was never easy.

I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.

I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.

I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went to college. I have so many great friends that live there. It's where I discovered that I wanted to be an artist.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

Though I adored Delhi, Mumbai was in my veins and I felt connected to this city and had to come back.