Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations
City Life Quotes
Browse 185 quotes about City Life.
Related topics
City Life Quotes
“The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.”
“Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author
“Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.”
“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.”
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
Source: WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: Poems by Walt Whitman
Source: 1949-1959
“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?”
“Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”
Source: A Year Down Yonder
Source: Notebooks, 1935-1942
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.”
“The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.”
“A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.”
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views