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City Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and…
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
More City Quotes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be… — Christian Bale
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley