Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?
Cities - City Quotes
The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.
Woe! Woe, O great city… In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin! (Revelation 18:16-17)
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city “half as old as Time!”
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill – all alone – long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God’s way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.
What is London? Clean, commodious, neat; but, a very few things indeed excepted, an endless addition of littleness to littleness, extending itself over a great tract of land.
Comfort it is to say: ‘Of no mean city am I!’
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the other.
