Sense Of Belonging Quote by E.B. White

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in…

— Robin Cody

“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”

— Louis L'Amour

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes…

— Helen Keller

“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in…

— Amor Towles

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey