Plato Quotes

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.