One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography. — John Berger 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
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
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman 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
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus 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
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but… — Anonymous 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
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than… — Terry Bradshaw 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
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
[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
Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it… — Curtis Jackson 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
Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to… — Walter Benjamin 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“are more open to the Christian faith than they were in their original context. Most have been uprooted from their familiar, traditional… — Timothy Keller 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
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