Quotes about City life

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[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime f — Jess C. Scott, Trouble
When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses — G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights) — Eve Kagan
But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cut — John dos Passos
In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life. — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card tha — Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did w — Choire Sicha, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architectu — Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
A wealth of research confirms the importance of face-to-face contact. One experiment performed by two researchers at the — Edward L. Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The city was alive, and so was he... — Kassandra Cross, Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance
I’m considering keeping the shutters open, even if people are spying on me at night from the apartment across the street — Jalina Mhyana
Like most cities, London could be a lonely place... — Kassandra Cross, Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance
Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, eve — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I th — Jon Chopan, Pulled from the River
To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a fi — Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than plann — Vikram Roy
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! — Vikram Roy
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky — Tana French, In the Woods