Gray Quote by E. M. Forster

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

— E. M. Forster

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain…

— Jason Mraz

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

— Wallace Stegner

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

— Herman Melville

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

— Honore de Balzac

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

— Margaret Craven