Cities Quotes

4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors

If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate… — Suzanne Collins
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous… — Ayn Rand
It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things… — Hoda Kotb
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who… — Suzanne Collins
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it… — Vera Nazarian
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if… — C.S. Lewis
Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and… — Ismail KadarÃ©
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that… — R A Salvatore
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact,… — Neal Shusterman
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see… — George Eliot
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against… — Charles Bukowski
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you… — Jim Henson
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. — Don DeLillo
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an… — M. John Harrison
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago… — Terry Pratchett
There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. — Gregory Maguire
I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode,… — Cherie Priest
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor… — C.S. Lewis
Don't let the wicked city get you down. — Sylvia Plath
When I went to stay with I’m, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern… — Cassandra Clare
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and… — J M Coetzee
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if… — Elwyn Brooks White

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