Cities Quotes

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It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that… — Joan Didion
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't… — Nuala O'Faolain
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean â€œloveâ€ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,… — Walt Whitman
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts… — W G Sebald
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I… — Helen Keller
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice… — Dante Alighieri
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people — Dante Alighieri
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight,… — Ernest Hemingway
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice… — Banksy
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give… — Michael Cunningham
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book… — Saint Augustine
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,… — Corrie Ten Boom
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.… — Oprah Winfrey
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere… — Jack Kerouac

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