City-dwellers Quotes

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

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.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.

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

New Yorkers are smart.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.

I'm in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we're trying to do, and that organism of the city nurturing human aspiration, and the actual city fabric itself being a special thing rather than just infrastructure.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

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

I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.