Cities Quotations
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| No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. | |||
| - Cyril Connolly | |||
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| God made the country, and man made the town. | |||
| - William Cowper | |||
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| Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. | |||
| - Philip G. Hamerton | |||
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| There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. | |||
| - Ben Hecht | |||
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| The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. | |||
| - Christopher Morley | |||
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| Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. | |||
| - Desmond Morris | |||
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| Cities are the abyss of the human species. | |||
| - Jean Jacques Rousseau | |||
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| What is the city but the people? | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||