We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the…

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

— Orhan Pamuk

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

— Eric Garcetti

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean,…

— J. G. Ballard

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of…

— James Buchan

“Part of Wordsworth’s complaint was directed towards the smoke, congestion, poverty and ugliness of cities, but clean-air bills and slum clearance would not, by…

— Alain de Botton

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other…

— Patricia Hewitt

I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would…

— Gail Collins

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were…

— Katherine Boo

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were…

— Kim Edwards

In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per…

— Michelle Obama

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to…

— John Leo

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,…

— Abraham Verghese

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

— Samantha Power

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might…

— Celia Rivenbark

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker