Cities and City Life Quotes
49 quotations about Cities and City Life
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Authors on Cities and City Life
Fred A. Allen
Aristotle
Caesar Augustus
Jane Austen
Ambrose Bierce
Joseph Brodsky
Rupert Brooke
Johnny Carson
John Ciardi
Cyril Connolly
Coriolanus III
Frank Dane
Thomas E. Dewey
Michael Douglas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christopher Fieldes
W. C. Fields
John Kenneth Galbraith
Ferdinando Galiani
Robert Gurney