Cities Quotes - Page 6

• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Groups, Mosques

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Sound, Chicago, Comfort

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Real, Desire, Chicago

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.6845, e-artnow

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

  Swag, Pockets, Chicago

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Differences, Insulting

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• Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

  Studs Terkel

  Chicago, City Of Chicago, American Cities

  "The Dick Cavett Show", June 9, 1978.

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Leaves Of Grass, World

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Roots, Feet, Chicago

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• To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Looks, Crosses

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Morning, Lying

  'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)

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• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Morning, Men, Fog

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

  Nelson Algren

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Chicago

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• Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

  James Bryce

  America, Chicago

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• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  Gary Cole

  Missing, Chicago, February

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• I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;   I dreamed that was the new City of Friends;   Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;   It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,   And in all their looks and words.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Men, Quality

  'I dreamed in a dream'

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• Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.371

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• Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

  Norman Mailer

  New York, San Francisco, Chicago

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House

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• Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

  Thomas Seward

  Birth Place, Rivals, Fame

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• But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Looks, Vandalism, Rebuilding

  The Death and Life of Great American Cities introduction (1961)

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• The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1862). “Royal Truths, etc”, p.40

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• Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Paris, Creating

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• A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Wish, Inspired

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.126, The Planet

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• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, City Life, Confounding

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.181, Aeterna Press

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