Cities Quotes

The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis - because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.

Mark Simpson

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley

Hog butcher for the world,Tool maker, stacker of wheat,Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the big shoulders.

Carl Sandburg, from poem Chicago

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Italian Proverb

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Robert Gurney

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger

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

Herbert Prochnow

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Ada Louise Huxtable

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Oscar Wilde

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Hubert Humphrey

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Caesar Augustus

Either these unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Dwight L. Moody

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

Samuel Johnson

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

John Ciardi

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Paul Goodman

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Robert Orben