Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

“Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities…

— Frederik Peeters

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is…

— Jane Jacobs

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

The city's full of people who you just see around.

— Terry Pratchett

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

— Richard Peck

The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.

— Emma Stone

Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in…

— Karin Slaughter

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

— Toyo Ito

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau