Cities Quote by Italo Calvino

“And Polo answers, "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities...”

— Italo Calvino

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a…

— Roman Payne

“Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.”

— Antonia Perdu

“Travel is about the people you get to meet and the moments you get to share with them... Travel is about dissolving and melting…

— Elena Levon

“Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we…

— Jean Baudrillard

“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we…

— Colum McCann

“… If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed,…

— David Grann

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys…

— Roman Payne

“Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“...travel is ultimately about creating a contrast with everyday life, thereby refreshing your mind and making time seem more spacious.”

— Annie Raser-Rowland

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

— Federico Garcia Lorca