Cities Quotes

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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work. — Scott Westerfeld
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive. — Terry Pratchett
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through… — Isabel Allende
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted… — Mitch Albom
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. — Thomas S. Monson
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out… — Jack Kerouac
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,… — Tamora Pierce
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the… — Cassandra Clare
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest… — Robert Frost
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have… — Edward Abbey
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was… — Jeanne DuPrau
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich

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