2,405 Quotes About Cities

For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.

He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.

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 the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

Cities get built out of poet's dreams.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love.

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a city or country will just happen to look in the mirror at the same time, and from then on there was a city in the sky, as all cities are if we consider that the sky reaches to the ground, and this city, too, thought it was alive, and the candles walked off by themselves.

If only cities were as easy for her to maneuver as infinite space.