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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Toni Morrison
Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
Martin Oppenheimer
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
George Santayana
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Kathleen Norris
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rainer Maria Rilke
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
Johnny Carson
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
Alexander Maclaren
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.
Jonathan Raban
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
Alan Brien
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Juvenal
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (
I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.
Spiro T. Agnew
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.
Oswald Spengler
Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
Thomas E. Dewey
