Quotes about life

"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."

Carson, Johnny on life   

"Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]"

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on life   

"A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse."

Ciardi, John on life   

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

Connolly, Cyril on life   

"All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view."

Conrad, Peter on life   

"What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city."

Coriolanus III on life   

"Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]"

Dane, Frank on life   

"If you're not in New York, you're camping out."

Dewey, Thomas E. on life   

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

Disraeli, Benjamin on life   

"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."

Douglas, Michael on life   

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on life   

"Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"The city is recruited from the country."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch."

Fieldes, Christopher on life   

"I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."

Fields, W. C. on life   

"Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."

Forster, Edward M. on life   

"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on life   

"Paris is the caf? of Europe."

Galiani, Ferdinando on life   

"Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all."

Gurney, Robert on life   

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast."

Hemingway, Ernest on life   

"What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?"

Henry, O. on life   

"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."

Herold, Don on life   

"There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer."

Hoagland, Edward on life   

"In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is."

Hoggart, Simon on life   

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

Humphrey, Hubert H. on life
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"A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it."

Huxley, Aldous on life   

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

Huxtable, Ada Louise on life   

"But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities."

Jacobs, Jane on life   

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Johnson, Samuel on life   

"All things may be bought in Rome with money."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on life   

"The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost."

Kempton, Murray on life   

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

Kennedy, John F. on life   

"We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation."

Kennedy, John F. on life   

"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on life   

"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life."

Lawrence, D. H. on life   

"The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up."

Leno, Jay on life   

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."

Letterman, David on life   

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape."

Lorca, Federico Garcia on life   

"Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city."

Maclaren, Alexander on life