Cities Quotes

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Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent… — Shirley Jackson
Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he… — Cassandra Clare
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich… — Jeannette Walls
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,… — Thomas Pynchon
If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate… — Suzanne Collins
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous… — Ayn Rand
It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things… — Hoda Kotb
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who… — Suzanne Collins
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it… — Vera Nazarian
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if… — C.S. Lewis
Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and… — Ismail KadarÃ©
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that… — R A Salvatore
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact,… — Neal Shusterman
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see… — George Eliot
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against… — Charles Bukowski
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you… — Jim Henson
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn

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