Cities Quotes

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I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time… — Nolan Ryan
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight:… — Teju Cole
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. — Cyprian Ekwensi
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,… — Saint Augustine
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. — Donald Barthelme
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where… — Edward Abbey
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. — Alexander Woollcott
You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I… — Loretta Lynn
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the… — Mercy Otis Warren
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of… — Terry Pratchett
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light. — Woody Allen
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used… — Adam Duritz
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could… — Randall Munroe
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or… — Ida B. Wells
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted… — Lana Del Rey

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