There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. – Philip G. Hamerton
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. – Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.
What is the city but the people? – William Shakespeare
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. – Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht
God made the country, and man made the town. – William Cowper, The Task, 1785
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. – Herbert Prochnow
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The city disappears street by street as you enter it. – Ian Seed
Cities are the abyss of the human species. – 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. – Somerset Maugham
