Cities Quotes

4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. — Roald Dahl
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall… — Candace Bushnell
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt… — Christopher Fowler
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… — John Steinbeck
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you… — Samuel R. Delany
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. — C.S. Lewis
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in… — William Gibson
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did… — Milan Kundera
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!… — Diane Duane
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed… — Che Guevara
Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury,… — James Patterson
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and… — Mark Helprin
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much… — Gore Vidal
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie

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