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Cities Quotes by Jonathan Raban
- Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are…
- In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces…
- In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and…
- The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
- To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly…
- In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.
- When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of…
- Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that…
- By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you…
- Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to…
- Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free…
- Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central…
- My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.…
- At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The…
More Cities Quotes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — Unknown Author
- I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from… — Charles Spurgeon
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet