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Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another. — Aeschylus

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

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. — William, Saroyan

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley

When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities. — Elena Ferrante

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. — Nancy Spain

Big cities squeeze the ability to be patient right out of people. Life becomes too frantic and rushed. It's a sad thing. — Deb Baker

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. — Anna Quindlen

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. — Patrick Kavanagh

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. — Charles Baudelaire

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city. — Michael Bloomberg

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. — Oscar Wilde

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco. — Chicken John

Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him. — Conn Iggulden

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities. — Rila Fukushima

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte

I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room. — Sheridan Hay

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights) — David Levien

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World. — Bernie Brillstein

In the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life. — Mabel Osgood Wright

I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it. — Vitali Klitschko

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. — Henry James

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life. — C.P. Cavafy

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit. — Sheridan Hay

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above. — Anne Bradstreet

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city. — Maggie Q

prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us. — Willa Cather

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. — Virginia Postrel

The feeling swept over me that I was not born for a normal life at home among my people or in cities and houses — Hermann Hesse

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now. — Jack Dorsey

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel. — Robbie Robertson

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. — Solomon Northup

... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts. — John Tyndall

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life. — Kate Milford

All around us, Karachi kept moving — Kamila Shamsie

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life. — Hope Edelman

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West

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

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it. — Jeanette Pierce

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

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. — Charles Dickens

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had. — Bill Bryson

Commerce is the life blood of the City. If we are not careful, government will become the cancer. — Andrew Ryan

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life. — Tony Bennett

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. — Lee Iacocca

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. — Wallace Stevens

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun. — Edgerrin James

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated. — Jennifer Stone

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements? — Jane Jacobs

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life. — Beverly Cleary

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires. — J. J. Field

The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England. — Mark Roberts

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier

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