Cities Quotes

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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our… — Veronica Franco
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished… — Bill Bryson
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel
The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime… — Colum McCann
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world,… — Ayn Rand
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking… — Tim Winton
who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should… — E E Cummings
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient,… — Neil Gaiman
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,… — Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak… — Italo Calvino
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it! — Ilona Andrews
I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being aloneâ€”a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely… — J D Salinger
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the… — Terry Pratchett
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course â€” it was not round and shiny â€” but even its worst… — Terry Pratchett
Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in… — Michael Buckley
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color… — Diane Ackerman
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and… — Haruki Murakami
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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