Cities Quote by Kate Milford

“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

“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”

— Laurie Notaro

“All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.”

— Sidney Dark

“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those…

— Kate Milford

“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.”

— Gao Xingjian

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

— Epictetus

“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

“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

“Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.”

— Bill Bryson

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that…

— Carrie Vaughn

“Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live.”

— Kurt Vonnegut