2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Robert Southey
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    Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

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  • Author Roy Smith
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    Get out of the cities and go down to the little coffee shop instead of the country club - and people are overwhelmingly in favor of Roy Moore. And a lot of them are Democrats.

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  • Author Ruta Sepetys
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    New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

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  • Author Said Sayrafiezadeh
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    The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

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  • Author Said Sayrafiezadeh
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    Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

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  • Author Saint Francis De Sales
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    The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

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  • Author Scott Shapiro
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    We've been to five cities in seven days, and it was just too much for him. His sleep isn't where it needs to be, and the trip is having an impact on his off-season workout regimen.

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