Edinburgh Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“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

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

— George Herbert

“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

“The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.”

— Ed Koch

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”

— Sophocles

“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

“There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me…

— Pearl S. Buck

“The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire…

— Gilles Deleuze

“This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that…

— Carrie Vaughn

“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged…

— André Alexis

“That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet…

— Nina Antonia

“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