“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
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix… — Joseph Rykwert 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 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
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that… — Jane Jacobs 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
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde 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
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. — John Berger 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
“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
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment… — John Dos Passos 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
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