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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“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parents.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can’t. My dear, I don’t give a damn.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)