Cities Quote by Edward Hoagland

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

— Mason Cooley

“QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION 1. How would you describe your own attitude toward cities? Indifferent? Hostile? Romanticized? Positive? In what way has this…

— Timothy Keller

Virtue is too often merely local.

— Samuel Johnson

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

— Christopher Morley

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered…

— Raymond Williams

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the…

— Hesiod

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more…

— Timothy Keller

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

— Lori Lansens

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

— Hutch Harris

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

— Pico Iyer

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

— Claudio Ranieri