Cities Quote by Don DeLillo

“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

“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

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines; they aren't…

— Elizabeth Wilson

“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

“Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves…

— Thomas Hardy

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only…

— Thomas Bernhard