Cities Quotes
+1Every city is a living body.
- St. Augustine
+1What is the city but the people?
- William Shakespeare
+1A rose red city half as old as Time.
- Dean John William
+1God made the country, and man made the town.
- William Cowper
+1The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
- Desmond Morris
+1We must not build housing, we must build communities.
- Mike Burton
+1The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
- Baltasar Gracian
+1A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
- Aristotle
+1I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston’s freeways.
- A. J. Foyt
+1I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Crime does not follow poverty, it follows concentrations of poverty.
- Reuben Greenberg
+1The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
- Euripides
+1Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
- Bible
+1We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
- John F. Kennedy
+1Seven cities warr’d for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
- Homer J Simpson
+1The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
+1Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
- Pierre Charron
+1When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
+1How is a village a village? By including young & old, white & black, rich & poor, churches & shops.
- Anonymous
+1Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
- Cyril Connolly
+1People say that they do not want to live near where they work; but that they would like to work near where they live.
- Zev Cohen
+1I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+1Environmentalists should make good urbanists, since they understand systems, diversity, connectivity and interdependence.
- Caryl Terrell
+1Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
- Bible
+1There are two types of environmentalists: those who understand that the city is part of the environment and those who do not.
- Paul Soglin
+1Any 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
+1I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
- Oliver Goldsmith
+1The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree show, without supplying it with any ideas.
- William Hazlitt
+1The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- Walt Whitman
+1Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
- Alcaeus
