Cities Quote by Carlos Fuentes Download Open image “The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.” — Carlos Fuentes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Citizens Forget Granted
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“I’d forgotten my identity as the world’s most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead. ” — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted… — Carlos Fuentes 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
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