Top 44 Lost Cities Quotes
#2. Am I supposed to help Frodo destroy the ring and save Middle Earth? Or do I have to make toys in the North Pole?
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#3. You keep claiming you're not mysterious, but who are you kidding?
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#4. You may be the biggest news to hit the academy since The Great Gulon Incident three years ago - which, by the way, I had nothing to do with.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#5. Okay - there's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say it. We're not human, Sophie.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#6. There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
Amy Davidson
#8. My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.
Steve Aoki
#9. The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try to pretend they're still back at home.
I saw it as a place for lost souls.
Amy Plum
#10. It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off
Elizabeth Berg
#12. Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel ... City of Night?
Jim Morrison
#13. The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear ... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away ... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Umberto Eco
#14. The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#15. One Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
Aristotle.
#16. In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.
Kylie Tennant
#17. 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.
Italo Calvino
#18. Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it.
Cory Michael Sheldon
#19. Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost ...
Paul Quarrington
#20. People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.
William Kamkwamba
#21. Mr. Snuggles is always the best thing to see when you first wake up.
Shannon Messenger
#22. The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.
John Mearsheimer
#23. Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
Henning Mankell
#24. Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.
Shannon Messenger
#25. Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.
William Timothy Murray
#26. And Polo answers, Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities ...
Italo Calvino
#27. There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.
David Maraniss
#28. For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.
Simon Van Booy
#29. It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.
Paul Gallico
#30. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
#31. People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
Diane Ackerman
#32. They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug
Monica Ali
#34. My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
Bruce Springsteen
#35. Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
Dionne Brand
#36. Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.
Italo Calvino
#37. Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.
Arthur Frommer
#38. When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.
Laozi
#39. Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
Dante Alighieri
#40. Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. Whoever has built a new city in Delhi has always lost it: the Pandava brethren, Prithviraj Chauhan, Feroz Shah Tughluk, Shah Jehan ... They all built new cities and they all lost them. We were no exception.
William Dalrymple
#42. In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.
Rawi Hage
#43. Fine, but you should at least have to write an epic poem in my honor. Here, I'll help you. "Ode to Keefe Sencen, that brave lovable nut. He may not have teal eyes, but he has a really cute,"
"KEEFE"!
Shannon Messenger
#44. We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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