Cities Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image “It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities
I don't care where people come from, but others are fascinated about where I come from. — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world. — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go. — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where you came from. All that matters is where you're going. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image