I figure I'll soak up the city life for as long as I can…

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

— John F. Kennedy

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange…

— Tana French

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

— Plato

“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you get angry.…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

— Henry James

“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless…

— Frank O'Hara

“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New Testament writings…

— Timothy Keller

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I…

— Marc Almond

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have…

— Jane Jacobs

“Best Spa Abu Dhabi Cristal Spa is the best spa of Abu Dhabi. It is a place for you to avoid city life and…

— Cristal Spa

I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is…

— Rosemary Tonks