A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Hong Kong is one of the world's great cities, a synthesis of British power, Scottish mercantile drive and Chinese intelligence, ingenuity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this.… — Joey McIntyre Copy Share Image
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me,… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson 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
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end. — Charles Hanson Towne Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
