William Hazlitt Quotes

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

The people are the city.

Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

I'm definitely a city kid.

There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.

I enjoy playing on grass and I enjoy being in London.

Growing up in inner-city neighborhoods, there's a particular structure, which I'm sure is true of most social contexts. The type of person you are determines the role you play.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I'm from east London.

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.