Cities Quotes

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The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed… — Che Guevara
Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury,… — James Patterson
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and… — Mark Helprin
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much… — Gore Vidal
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work. — Scott Westerfeld
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive. — Terry Pratchett
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through… — Isabel Allende
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted… — Mitch Albom
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. — Thomas S. Monson
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out… — Jack Kerouac
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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