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Cities Quotes by Walt Whitman
- The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his…
- O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good…
- I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that…
- More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name…
- A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil…
- Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading…
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city…
- WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,…
- This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
- A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
- TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once…
- Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city…
More Cities Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin