Cities Quotes

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The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,… — Tamora Pierce
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the… — Cassandra Clare
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest… — Robert Frost
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have… — Edward Abbey
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was… — Jeanne DuPrau
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. — Bret Easton Ellis
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once… — Walt Whitman
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. — Guillermo del Toro
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has… — Lafcadio Hearn

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