Cities Quotes

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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. — Bob Dylan
In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities. — Charles Manson
The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill… — Alice Sebold
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were… — Anais Nin
I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob… — S E Hinton
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll… — Donald Miller
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or… — Garrison Keillor
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under… — Gary Soto
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers… — Charles Dickens
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by… — Julia Gregson
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives… — Nick Hornby
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into… — Jean-Paul Sartre
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and… — Dave Eggers
If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the… — Steven Galloway
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed… — Alice Sebold
He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep… — Cassandra Clare
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the… — Elizabeth McCracken
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel. — Simon R. Green
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. — Markus Zusak
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people… — Jeanne DuPrau

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