Cities Quote by Zbigniew Herbert

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool…

— Anton Chekhov

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

— Anonymous

“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh…

— Robert Goolrick

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.”

— Paxton Casmiro

Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all…

— Bahá'u'lláh

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

— Sophocles

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom…

— Plato

“They had left their cities, but they carried their cities with them, as a trust, on their shoulders. That's how it usually is. Even…

— Intizar Husain

He who flees will fight again.

— Tertullian

“Extermination of city could be prevented by presence of a few who have faith of God.”

— Toba Beta

“If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and mind, the…

— Rebecca Solnit