Cities Quote by Terry Pratchett

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate…

— Jane Jacobs

I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same…

— Iain Sinclair

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“We get to know our cities on hoot, and when we leave, the topography shifts. We're no longer as surefooted. But maybe that's a…

— Lauren Elkin

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

— Norton Juster

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes…

— Peter Conrad

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities…

— Anonymous

You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

— Hal Ketchum

“The interesting thing about cities isn’t what they do when people are looking,” Ben says. “It’s what they do when they think nobody’s looking.…

— Scott Kenemore

“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

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs