America Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

“We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two…

— Mario Cuomo

“The only way our cities can survive this is together.”

— K. Weikel

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all…

— Carolyn See

“A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.”

— Amit Kalantri

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in…

— Nathan Reese Maher

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

“a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.”

— Halldór Laxness

“It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and…

— Lauren Groff

“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“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

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

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

— Epictetus