Amish Quote by John A. Hostetler

“The pursuit of a kind of absolute safety, above all other considerations of what makes places good environments, has not only made those streets…

— Tom Vanderbilt

“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided…

— Adam Greenfield

“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”

— Louis L'Amour

“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political…

— Ilia Delio

“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem for a…

— Joseph Gies

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“Urban life itself acts as a giant particle accelerator. When people move to the city, they start to do everything faster.”

— Carl Honoré

“The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.”

— Walter Dean Myers

I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from…

— Barry Goldwater

“Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.”

— Elena Ferrante

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente