Change the world Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form…

— Geoffrey West

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in…

— Robin Cody

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

— Geoffrey West

“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.…

— Jason Myers

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser