Cities Quotes

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It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those… — Markus Zusak
Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be… — Jeanne DuPrau
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me — Walt Whitman
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make… — Saul Bellow
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable… — Henry Miller
Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita — Laurell K. Hamilton
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a… — Augusten Burroughs
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
When you clean up a city, you destroy it. — Charles Bukowski
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.… — Terry Pratchett
Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me… — Sherwood Smith
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.… — William Goldman
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) — Raymond Chandler
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece… — Ayn Rand

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