Cities Quote by Jane Addams

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

— John Lanchester

The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.

— Caroline Lucas

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

— Nelson Mandela

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder

It's never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor.

— Lee Hsien Loong

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

— Marco Rubio

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that…

— Susan Oliver

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a…

— Edward Abbey

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

— Agnes Repplier

“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout…

— Jane Jacobs

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

— Leon Battista Alberti