Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. Rupert Brooke
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
Cities give not the human senses room enough. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. Alfred Döblin
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Benjamin Disraeli
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs
Cities are the abyss of the human species. Jean Jacques Rousseau
We are in danger … of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. Hubert Humphrey
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. Andy Warhol
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead
To some extent, if you’ve seen one city slum you’ve seen them all. Spiro T Agnew