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Charles Caleb Colton1 quote
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton · 1820Ezra Pound1 quote
All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound · 1913Frank Lloyd Wright1 quote
The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1973Italo Calvino1 quote
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. — Italo Calvino · 1972Jane Austen1 quote
We do not look in great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen · 1814Jane Jacobs1 quote
There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind. — Jane Jacobs · 1961John Milton1 quote
Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty. — John Milton · 1644Marcus Terentius Varro1 quote
It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro · 27 BCNicias1 quote
For a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men. — Nicias · 404 BCPercy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
Sun-girt city, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819Philip C. Johnson1 quote
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture. — Philip C. Johnson · 1955Raymond Chandler1 quote
A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. — Raymond Chandler · 1949Ron Burgundy1 quote
Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale’s vagina. — Ron Burgundy · 2004Socrates1 quote
The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do. — Socrates · 370 BCStranger on Highway1 quote
It doesn't make any difference what city, all cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now. — Stranger on Highway · 1969Tom Wolfe1 quote
He could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors! — Tom Wolfe · 1987Walt Whitman1 quote
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world. — Walt Whitman · 1867William Shakespeare1 quote
What is the city but the people? — William Shakespeare · 1616