"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

Cities, Culture

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"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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"I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet."

Minnie Driver, English Actress

Cities, Yoga

"It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

Cities, Madness, Now

"I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times."

Jack Irons, American Musician

Cities, Europe

"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."

William Jennings Bryan, American Lawyer

Cities, Country, Magic, Spring

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

John Lee Hooker, American Musician

Cities, Taste

"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."

Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israeli Writer

Cities, Israel, Land, Result

"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

Cities,

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

Cities, Humanity

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none."

Olivier Messiaen, French Composer

Cities, Colors, Jazz, Military

"Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Cities, City, Love, Metaphor, Memory

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"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

God

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

History

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

Writing

"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."

Heaven

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."

History

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

Athens

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Language

"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

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