Cities Quotes

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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,… — Alasdair Gray
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the… — David Simon
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in… — William Cronon
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs,… — Ben Webster
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. — Patrick Geddes
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness — Clarence Stein
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social… — Rose Wilder Lane
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be… — Robert McCracken
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a… — Ambrose Bierce
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop… — Marian Wright Edelman
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. — Heraclitus
When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or… — Paulo Coelho
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the… — Mark Twain
To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food. — Gael Greene
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted… — Sherman Alexie
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge… — George Eliot

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