Best cities & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

“The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”

Ifs Want Humans Stills Real Shows Light Past Human Beings Cities Streets Wall Standing Circles Emptiness Dusk

Book:Old Wine: A Novel

Source: Old Wine: A Novel

“The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace. All things lie within that little space.”

Heart Littles Light Life Is Lying Evil Space Cities Grace Angel All Things Treasure Kingdoms Beast Heavenly Dragons Rough Lions Vessel Apostles Poisonous

Author:Macarius of Egypt

“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.”

Light Beautiful Cities Quality Depth Hills California Height Unexpected Valleys Diamond Glimpse San Francisco Nests Glitter Breathtaking City Lights Glisten

Author:Inez Haynes Irwin

“London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.”

Knows Moments Light Beautiful Turns Ability Cities Corners London Weather Odd Beautiful You

Author:Graham Swift

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?”

Light Happens Nations Easy Money Cities Leader Promise Lows Optimism Shining Notion Tolerance Hills Catastrophe Doom Gloom Pending Hope And Change Doom And Gloom

Author:Kathleen Parker

“The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.”

People Whole Light Government Cities China Forbidden Lamps

Author:Mao Zedong

“Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!”

Persons Long Light Seems Earth Joy Turns Dark Cities Singing Wings Notes Flight Breathing Planes Rising Aviation Climbing Engines Arrogant Smooth Soar Sigh

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.”

Men Giving Soul Light Faces Turns Passion Memories Cities Blood Civilization Red Peaceful Dull Wilderness Routine Fierce Peril Marketplace Envious

Author:Estwick Evans

“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.”

Ideas Light Cities Silence Wonder Darkness Higher Conspiracy City Lights

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.”

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

Ifs Bigs Light Parent Born Cities Written Generations Twenties Tao Clicks Gary Big Cities Bright Lights

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

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