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Life in a Big City / Advantages and Drawbacks of City Life



1. In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely. (Fisher)


2. What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. (Brodsky)


3. If you would be know and not be known, live in a city. (Colton)


4. The people are the city. (Shakespeare)


5. In the busy haunts of men. (Felicia D. Hemans)


6. God made the country, and man made the town. (William Cowper)


7. All great art is born of metropolis.


8. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.


9. Recreation is not only joy but need of a man.


10. What is a city, but the people true people are the city.


11. In cities life is heaven for the rich and hell for the poor.


12. Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.


13. Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.


14. Happiness is what you make it.


15. The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. (D. Morris)


16. The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. Susanne Katherina Langer


17. City life is millions of people being lonesome together. Henry David Thoreau


18. A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead


19. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. Christopher Morley


20. Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. Rupert Brooke


21. I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. Michelangelo


22. A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert V. Prochnow


23. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman


24. Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away. Michael Patrick King


25. We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. Hubert H. Humphrey


26. We do not look in great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen


27. Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. Richard Peck


28. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. Alphonse de Lamartine


29. Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson


30. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. Cyril Connolly


31. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. Margaret Mead


32. Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. Plato


33. City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. Stephen King


34. You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. John de Ruiter


35. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. Lewis Mumford


36. The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford


37. When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. Hugh Newell Jacobsen


38. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. Alan Alda


39. The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Leon Battista Alberti


40. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns


41. The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there. James De La Vega


42. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. William Jennings Bryan


43. It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. Jordan Peterson


44. But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. Patrick Geddes


45. Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. Chris Noth


46. I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. Steve McQueen


47. It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows. Yung Lean


48. A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me. Emily Thornberry

49. What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. Joseph Brodsky

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