Cities Quote by David Sedaris

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

“I’m crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and…

— Toni Morrison

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense…

— Minoru Yamasaki

“The city is tricky. The highs are so much higher, but in the lows you drop straight down again to bedrock. It helps that…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

— Terry Pratchett

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives…

— Italo Calvino

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

“hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future.”

— Dulce Rodrigues

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned…

— Uzodinma Iweala