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QUOTES including the word: "cities"

Pablo Neruda:
  • And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

    • Borges:
  • “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

    • Calvino:
  • Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

    • Arthur Koestler:
  • I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

    • Chateaubriand:
  • Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

    • Aristophanes:
  • Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

    • Voltaire:
  • Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

    • Sophocles:
  • Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.