Cities Quote by Allan Dare Pearce

“Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.”

— Vinita Kinra

“More things we learned from the Rising: It’s hard to gentrify a city that’s on fire.”

— Mira Grant

“The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral a mile…

— Rupert Thomson

“t is absurd, impolitic, and inhuman to burn a city you mean to occupy”

— Henry Clinton

“the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.”

— Ray Bradbury

“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo

“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.”

— Toni Morrison

“This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.”

— William Shakespeare

“The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city…

— Jim Murphy

“Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.”

— Amit Kalantri