Cities Quotes

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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,… — John Steinbeck
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in… — Scott Westerfeld
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby… — Jane Jacobs
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never… — John Adams
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,… — John Cheever
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand — Italo Calvino
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. — Jane Jacobs
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the… — Bernhard Schlink
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. — W G Sebald
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs
At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black… — Francesca Lia Block
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence. — Robert Cormier
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives… — Anais Nin
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again — Walter Dean Myers
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world… — Holly Lisle
... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of… — Michael Jackson

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