Cities Quotes

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The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound… — Douglas Adams
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. — Robin McKinley
It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free,… — Cory Doctorow
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a… — George Orwell
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all… — Oscar Wilde
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed,… — Scott Westerfeld
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a… — Libba Bray
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where… — Edward Abbey
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in… — Regina Doman
But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too… — John F. Kennedy
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. — Michael Ondaatje
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there. — John Banville
I know what itâ€™s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what itâ€™s like to be in danger. While your city was building you… — Scott Westerfeld
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I… — William S. Burroughs
Todayâ€™s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva

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