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Cities Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if…
- The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
- It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of…
- The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench,…
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — David Barford
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman