Cities Quotes

Cities Quotes:

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
~ Philip G. Hamerton

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
~ Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
~ John Milton

What is the city but the people?
~ William Shakespeare

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

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
~ Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

The roaring street is hung for miles
With fierce electric fire.
~ William Vaughan Moody, In New York

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
~ Ben Hecht

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

God made the country, and man made the town.
~ William Cowper, The Task, 1785

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~ Herbert Prochnow

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~ John Keats, Sonnet XIV

Cities are the abyss of the human species.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ?mile

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
~ Somerset Maugham

In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
~ Horace, Satires