quotations about cities
The city is an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues; it contains the products of every moral zone; it is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but in a spiritual sense.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Humanity in the City
A city isn't so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.
RASMENIA MASSOUD
Broken Abroad
If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship betweenman and material that exists in the continualcreative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demographyand architecture.
JONATHAN RABAN
Soft City
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
The Story of My Life
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light
U2
"Neon Lights"