Quotes about City life

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The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities! — Mehmet Murat ildan
Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fig — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
The process of categorisation is as old as men, yet as old as man alone, for no other animal species categorises itself — Joshua Krook, Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy
If you aren’t paranoid before you arrive in this city, give it a few weeks and you will soon notice it creeping in, drip — Garry Crystal, Leaving London
The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here, — Sari Botton, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other I — Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love and a Little Malice
Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the D — Stephanie Clifford, Everybody Rise
We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge o — Marisha Pessl, Night Film
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programme — David Levien
I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything in between would just — Nora Ephron
Somewhere in the city, an orange cat finished chewing on a marjoram plant next to his studio apartment's door and leapt — Stephanie Clifford
You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsist — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating. — Sarah Pekkanen, These Girls
It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own i — Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time — Patrick Geddes