Cities Quote by Cyprian Ekwensi

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or…

— Rebecca Solnit

The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They…

— Bill Bryson

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

— Dionne Brand

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag

Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.

— Emma Stone

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the…

— Colum McCann

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk