Cities Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

— Will Oldham

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there…

— J. B. Jackson

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

— James Howard Kunstler

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the…

— David Maraniss

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

— Honore de Balzac

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing…

— Alfred Jarry

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build.…

— Rose Macaulay

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid