Parenting Quote by Paul Beatty

“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

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets,…

— Italo Calvino

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?”

— James Sallis

“Cities were the flashpoint of consciousness, distant from suburban somnolence.”

— Kenneth Calhoun

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

— Gao Xingjian

“You do realize that Nowhere is a pretty stupid name for a city.”

— Amos T. Fairchild

“we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a restaurant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any…

— Richelle Mead

“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

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“Where does a city begin? Where does it end?”

— J.M. McDermott

“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