City Life Quotes

• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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• The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

  Desmond Morris

  Funny, Zoos, Concrete Jungle

  The Human Zoo (1969) p. 8

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• What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Beauty, Kings, Cities

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• Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

  Rupert Brooke

  Cat, Night, Cities

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Next Week, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

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• All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

  Christopher Morley

  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Cities, Born

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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• A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• The Simple Life is not a simple life.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Civilization, Cities, Culture

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• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Cities, Confounding

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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• I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Artist, Cities

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

  Richard Peck

  Thinking, Cities, Towns

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”, Dial

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• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Women, Cities

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

  Michael Patrick King

  Change, Heart, Cities

  Sex and the City, www.satctranscripts.com. 1998–2004.

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• 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

  Business, Real, Cities

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• Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, People, Growth

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• We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

  Jane Austen

  Pregnancy, Cities, Looks

  "The Complete Novels".

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• City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

  Stephen King

  Country, Men, Cities

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Morning, Men, Fog

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Travel, Istanbul, Cities

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• Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Cities

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.252, Penguin

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• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Cities, Groups

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

  John de Ruiter

  Cities, Needs, Awakening

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