History Quote by M.W.Gordon

“Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low…

— Noah Lukeman

“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of eccentric little…

— Stephen King

“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

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

— John Steinbeck

“On a map on my wall I relocated my family to Orafouraville, which is the capital of Kintzylvania, which is in the location of…

— Jarod Kintz

“I also went to Kyoto. I had found no occasion to visit the city in over twenty years, and was struck to find that…

— Barry Eisler

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind…

— Selma Blair

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

“Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've…

— Paul Fleischman

“The teeming scene in front of the station made familiar Tokyo look deserted by comparison. The street stretching out before me between rows of…

— Barry Eisler

It's a town you come to for a short time.

— Ernest Hemingway