City Life Quotes

60 City Life quotes by 53 unique authors

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;… — Charles Baudelaire
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their… — Italo Calvino
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. — Fred Allen
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. — Fred Allen
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. — Henry David Thoreau
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality… — Unknown Author
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he… — Henry David Thoreau
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred… — Robert Fulghum
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place.… — Joseph Rykwert
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. — John de Ruiter
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by… — Russell Kirk
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their… — Oscar Wilde
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. — Tacitus
When in Rome, do as Rome does. — Ambrose Bierce
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… — Walter Benjamin
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or… — Jean Baudrillard
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break… — Dwight L. Moody

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