Famous cities quotations

   In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
 ~ by Horace, Satires

   Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
 ~ by Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
 ~ by Cyril Connolly

   The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
 ~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

   There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
 ~ by Ben Hecht

   A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
 ~ by Herbert Prochnow

   What is the city but the people?
 ~ by William Shakespeare

   Cities are the abyss of the human species.
 ~ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile

   In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
 ~ by Somerset Maugham

   God made the country, and man made the town.
 ~ by William Cowper, The Task, 1785

   Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
 ~ by Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

   All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
 ~ by Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

   I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
 ~ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
 ~ by Philip G. Hamerton

   Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



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