329 quotes found
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.”
“The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.”
“There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.”
“To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.”
“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.”
“Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent...”
“A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the...”
“I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the...”
“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged to no one and never would, or maybe it was a million cities i...”
“Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed ab...”
“this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.”
“Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant...”
“If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!”
“And when spring comes to the City people notice one another in the road; notice the strangers with whom they share aisles and tables and the space where intimate garments are laundered. going in an...”
“We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.”
“This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.”
“There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld c”
“So now I lye by Day and toss or rave by Night, since the ratling and perpetual Hum of the Town deny me rest: just as Madness and Phrensy are the vapours which rise from the lower Faculties, so the ...”
“Is your life really so bad? This city is full of opportunities –”“Can you call it a city?” Marcus asked. “No gymnasium, no theatre, no forum? Where is the life a Roman man should lead?”
“@K11, Urban farming; It’s something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is very important for Shanghainese people because the city has lost ...”
