Quotes about life




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

Carson, Johnny on life    Share


"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    Share

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

Ciardi, John on life    Share

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

Connolly, Cyril on life    Share

"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    Share

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

Coriolanus III on life    Share

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

Dane, Frank on life    Share

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

Dewey, Thomas E. on life    Share

"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    Share

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

Douglas, Michael on life    Share

"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    Share

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life    Share

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life    Share

"The city is recruited from the country."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life    Share

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

Fieldes, Christopher on life    Share

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

Fields, W. C. on life    Share

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

Forster, Edward M. on life    Share

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth on life    Share

"Paris is the caf? of Europe."

Galiani, Ferdinando on life    Share

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

Gurney, Robert on life    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Herold, Don on life    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise on life    Share

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

Johnson, Samuel on life    Share

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on life    Share

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

Kempton, Murray on life    Share

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

Kennedy, John F. on life    Share

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

Kennedy, John F. on life    Share

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on life    Share

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

Lawrence, D. H. on life    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Maclaren, Alexander on life    Share

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