Cities Quote by Ambrose Bierce

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and…

— Augusten Burroughs

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

— Mason Cooley

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and…

— Rem Koolhaas

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They…

— Basil Hume

“Out in this profane city, sometimes sidewalks seem the only cement that connects us, pressed by the sacred strangers we will never touch.”

— B.J. Ward

Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.

— Labrinth

“New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag…

— Gene Doucette

A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways…

— Charles Abrams

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

“Expanding urbanization often trapped people at the margins of settlements into becoming landless and unable to use their skills and thus gradually forced them…

— Romila Thapar

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because…

— Tabish Khair