Cities Quotes

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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned… — Kurt Vonnegut
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move… — Michel de Certeau
When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly… — Megan McCafferty
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all… — Jorge Luis Borges
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and… — Colum McCann
She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off… — Brandon Sanderson
He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing,… — Matthew J. Kirby
probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man… — J D Salinger
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The… — Ray Bradbury
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence… — Chris Rose
By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city. — Derek Landy
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… — Samuel R. Delany
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if… — Gary Shteyngart
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,… — Margaret Atwood
Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to… — Rollo May
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies… — Audrey Niffenegger
And I know Iâ€™ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. â€œAs the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,â€ the Mayor says,… — Patrick Ness

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