Famous cities quotations

   In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.  Nice Word by Horace, Satires

   Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.  Meaningful Quotation by Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.  Good Quote by Cyril Connolly

   The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.  Wise Phrase by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

   There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.  Wise Phrase by Ben Hecht

   A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.  Famous Saying by Herbert Prochnow

   What is the city but the people?  Nice Word by William Shakespeare

   Cities are the abyss of the human species.  Meaningful Quotation by 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.  Good Quote by Somerset Maugham

   God made the country, and man made the town.  Wise Phrase by William Cowper, The Task, 1785

   Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.  Wise Phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.  Famous Saying by Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

   All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.  Nice Word by Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

   I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.  Meaningful Quotation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.  Good Quote by Philip G. Hamerton

   Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.  Wise Phrase by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



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