Cities Quotes

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For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to… — Robert Farrar Capon
The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our… — Robert Farrar Capon
This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited.… — Maggie Stiefvater
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.… — Megan Whalen Turner
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when… — Fay Weldon
A lamb in a city of wolves. — Karen Marie Moning
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. — Isaac Marion
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) — Cassandra Clare
And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good… — Khalil Gibran
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet thereâ€™s no place for us, my dear,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. — Jennifer Egan
I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised.… — Lauren Oliver
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The… — Ray Bradbury
He studied cities as women study their reflections. — O. Henry
The city's full of people who you just see around. — Terry Pratchett
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… — China Mieville
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we… — John Steinbeck
From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It… — Sarah Dessen

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