Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography. — John Berger 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
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.” — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana 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
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
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Everyone here knows a lot about the stars but nothing about the flowers and the trees. There is something wrong with this… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty… — Laura Thielen Copy Share Image
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a… — Dennis Edwards 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
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends… — Rebecca Pidgeon 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 only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
“The road was called Agnes weeps, after the town's first schoolteacher, who had burst into tears when she saw how plunging and… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a… — G. Neri Copy Share Image
“He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown… — Thomas Hardy 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
“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
“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
“ 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
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I figure I'll soak up the city life for as long as I can take it, and then one day disappear into… — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
We've always been suburb people, and we lived in the East Bay when I was in Oakland. This time around, we're staying… — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image