Quotes about Cities

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Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the tr — Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with inno — Charles Baudelaire
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Falsehood is never in words — it is in things.
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are t — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many peo — Criss Jami, Killosophy
You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I — Cormac McCarthy
Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with — Don DeLillo, White Noise
Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of — Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival
The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing — Cormac McCarthy
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a pro — Neal Shusterman, Downsiders
To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading — Dejan Stojanovic
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever live — Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, — Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire
It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we bui — Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give t — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) h — Piero Scaruffi
A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. T — Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad