City Quote by David Farr

“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll.…

— Tahir Shah

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities,…

— Peter Maurer

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

“How could a city fall when so many were still fighting? Kell”

— V.E. Schwab

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think…

— Rudy Giuliani

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

“The words sink and rise along the streets, are breathed in and out by the citizens, are pressed like bombs into the hands of…

— Nike Sulway

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the…

— Albert Speer

“A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It…

— James Thompson

So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon