Cities Quotes

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I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. — Norton Juster
I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs… — Mary Oliver
We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering… — Melina Marchetta
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city… — Bede Griffiths
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful,… — Charles Dickens
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals,… — Epictetus
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at… — John Berendt
Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the… — Cassandra Clare
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met. — John Green
Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism.… — Caitlin Moran
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble — Julius Caesar
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually… — Elif Safak
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. — Karl Pilkington
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city,… — Suketu Mehta
Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all… — Elwyn Brooks White
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise… — Shannon Hale

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