Welcome to the Cities Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.

~ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

~ John Keats, Sonnet XIV

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

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

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


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