Cities Quote by Theodore Parker

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

— Helen McCloy

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always…

— Theodore Parker

all large cities are alike at night.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as…

— Adam Rogers

“And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth...”

— Monica Ali

I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like…

— Kevin Morby

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of…

— Jean Baudrillard

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

— Rupert Brooke

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see…

— Juan Enriquez

“An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly lines of…

— Barry Lopez

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to…

— Terry Pratchett