Cities Quotes

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And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,… — Milan Kundera
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
[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… — John Steinbeck
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? — Pablo Neruda
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you… — Italo Calvino
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the… — Jim Goad
It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many… — Regina Doman
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read… — Susanna Clarke
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse
Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and… — C.S. Lewis
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light — Pete Wentz
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They… — Bjork
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph… — Dawn Powell
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in… — Rita Mae Brown
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water… — Edward Abbey
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change… — Barack Obama
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing… — Joe Meno
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for… — George Saunders

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