Cities Quotes

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so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light — Pete Wentz
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They… — Bjork
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph… — Dawn Powell
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in… — Rita Mae Brown
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water… — Edward Abbey
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change… — Barack Obama
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing… — Joe Meno
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for… — George Saunders
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those… — Markus Zusak
Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be… — Jeanne DuPrau
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me — Walt Whitman
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
I am an American, Chicago born â€“ Chicago, that somber city â€“ and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make… — Saul Bellow
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable… — Henry Miller
Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita — Laurell K. Hamilton

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