Cities Quote by Hermione Gingold Download Open image “A great city is a great solitude.” — Hermione Gingold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Great cities Loneliness Solitude
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“I suppose I shall drop dead in the theater, to a full house, I hope.” — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“It would appear that I have tried everything except incest and folkdancing.” — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image