Places
- The City of London, the historic core of London and (by metonymy) the British financial services sector
- The City (mall), now The Outlets at Orange, a shopping center in California
- The City is a slang term for the city of San Francisco, California
- The City is a slang term for Manhattan, especially among those who live in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
- The City (Urbe) is used in classical Roman texts to refer to Rome, e.g. ab urbe condita.
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Famous quotes containing the word places:
“The places which I have described may seem strange and remote to my townsmen ... our account may have made no impression on your minds. But what is our account? In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The places we have known do not only belong to the world of space in which we situate them for the sake of simplicity. They were but a thin slice between contiguous impression which formed our lives back then; the memory of a certain image is but the regret of a certain instant; and the houses, the roads, the avenues are fleeting, alas! as the years.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.”
—Sunday Correspondent (London, Aug. 12, 1990)