“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It… — S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour Copy Share Image
Being a Midwesterner, my first year in Boston was a trial. I loved the team, but adjusting to city life was most… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I didn't realize what a love affair I would have with big city life until I got to New York City. In… — Steven Pasquale Copy Share Image
“The process of categorisation is as old as men, yet as old as man alone, for no other animal species categorises itself… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
“In those moments, he would realize that this city where he’d spent forty years of his life, where he’d passed through thousands… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I choose the picture of the cover of the book 'Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi', I thought, gosh, many… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week, Bond was sunburned and hard. He had cut his cigarettes down to ten a day and… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The liberal radio host Garrison Keillor captured the spirit and self-image of the modern American left when he wrote: I am a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
“I loved driving with Marlboro Man. I saw things I’d never seen before, things I’d never even considered in my two and… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to… — Sari Botton Copy Share Image
“human nature of their origins runs counter to the prevailing cultural view of the ancient Near East. In the Genesis narrative, we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“ Meeting and Greeting 1. Use eye contact and smiling as your first contact with others. In doing so, you can scout… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
I was born in a city and I didn't think I'd ever want to leave the city life. — Neil Etheridge Copy Share Image
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
