Cities Quote by Angela Carter

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

— Margaret Mead

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

— Aristotle

I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

— Frances Wright

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

— Dawn Powell

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live…

— Susan Maushart

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson