Human civilization Quote by Rick Riordan

It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and…

— Rick Riordan

“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's…

— Olivia Sudjic

“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went…

— Bilal Tanweer

“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so…

— M.B. Julien

“Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a…

— Colum McCann

“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt…

— Candace Bushnell

“So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and a life-changing chaos,I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was…

— P.C. Cast

“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the…

— Marcel Proust

“The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It was hope that stood beside him, hidden and protected these years in this city, and in the years before it, spirited across the…

— Sarah J. Maas