Cities Quotes

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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. — Charles Baudelaire
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a… — Jeanette Winterson
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace. — Brian Selznick
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… — Tom Robbins
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. — Chuck Palahniuk
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. — Roald Dahl
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall… — Candace Bushnell
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt… — Christopher Fowler
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks… — John Steinbeck
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you… — Samuel R. Delany
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. — C.S. Lewis
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in… — William Gibson
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did… — Milan Kundera
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!… — Diane Duane

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