Cities Quote by Anna Quindlen Download Open image ““The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.”” — Anna Quindlen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities City life London
“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
“I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life.” — Caroline Green Copy Share Image
“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image