Cities Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities…

— Anonymous

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities…

— Greg Nickels

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep…

— A. J. Liebling

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson