Cities Quotes

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Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where… — Warren Miller
To Forget VeniceÂ is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights… — Chase Twichell
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore… — James Kavanaugh
It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn,… — Michael Herr
The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path… — Robert Moss
New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, thatâ€™s who I am. — Delia Ephron
I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess… — Jesse H. Jones
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
New York is the only real city-city. — Truman Capote
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without… — Nile Rodgers
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page… — Eudora Welty
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? — Thomas Merton
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. — William Shakespeare
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New… — Robert Benchley
Libraries are the pride of the city. — Amy Tan
This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as… — Eddie Murphy
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design? — Lana Del Rey
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of… — Paul Tillich

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