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Cities Quotes by John Steinbeck
- It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.…
- New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
- Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San…
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
- New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,…
- American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin