Cities Quotes

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When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel. — Simon R. Green
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. — Markus Zusak
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people… — Jeanne DuPrau
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to… — Henry Miller
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Sonya Sones
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours… — Banksy
How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die? — James Patterson
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you… — Banksy
Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures… — Gaston Bachelard
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. — Brent Weeks
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley
He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him,… — Colum McCann
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be… — C.S. Lewis
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting… — Cinda Williams Chima
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. — Toni Morrison
Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words.… — Joey Comeau

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