Cities are the abyss of the human species. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau; ?mile


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


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


All cities are mad:? but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful:? but the beauty is grim. ~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. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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


A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~Herbert Prochnow


God made the country; and man made the town. ~William Cowper; The Task; 1785


The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sr.


Divine Nature gave the fields; human art built the cities. ~Marcus Terentius Varro; De Re Rustica


Suburb:? a place that isn't city; isn't country; and isn't tolerable. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Clearly; then; the city is not a concrete jungle; it is a human zoo. ~Desmond Morris; The Human Zoo


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


Cities force growth; and make men talkative and entertaining; but they make them artificial. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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. ~Somerset Maugham


What is the city but the people?? ~William Shakespeare