Cities Quotes

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The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal… — Elwyn Brooks White
Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons… — Robert E. Howard
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few… — Graham Greene
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your… — Cesare Pavese
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it… — William Shakespeare
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there. — Ernest Hemingway
And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller… — Rick Riordan
I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the… — Tina Fey
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the… — Italo Calvino
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not… — Christopher McDougall
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul â€“ the intimate… — Fernando Pessoa
Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no… — Fernando Pessoa
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges… — Lauren DeStefano
The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who… — Moss Hart
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other. — Francesca Lia Block
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized… — Jonathan Kozol
There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all… — Anais Nin
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You… — Lauren Oliver
Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble,… — Lauren Oliver

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