Cities Quote by O. Henry Download Open image “He studied cities as women study their reflections.” — O. Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Education Reflection Self-Awareness Study
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for… — Andrew Morton Copy Share Image
“Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Besides, when did you become an expert on men, miss hide-herself-away-in-the-study?” — Sarah Jane Avory Copy Share Image
“It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a… — Louise Carey Copy Share Image
“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“We discussed ourselves a lot. But although we were women…we struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
