Peasant Quote by Bruno Schulz

“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“Street life was a struggle to survive today, with no time to reminisce and nothing in the past to get nostalgic over. There was…

— John Grisham

“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…

— Lisel Mueller

“I left my village to make my home to a better place. I wandered from towns to cities and from cities to countries. The…

— Aquib Ali

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh…

— Robert Goolrick

“He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go…

— Neil Gaiman

“Some of the streets are, however, genuinely narrow. These same streets may not be filled with machine-gun fire and the dramatic screech of violins,…

— John Dolan

“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of Lanarkshire. The…

— Edwin Muir

“By then the streets are empty and quiet, night about to fall, curfew about to come down like a giant warm embrace, keeping us…

— Lauren Oliver