A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert V. Prochnow citycommunitylarge Change image and share on social
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead answercitycountry Change image and share on social
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. Herb Caen cityclashconflict Change image and share on social
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose. Jaime Lerner cityfamilynose Change image and share on social
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. Herb Caen broadnesscitydream Change image and share on social
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. Herb Caen badboobuy share on social
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other. Alain de Botton barcityconcert share on social
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside. Gregory David Roberts citycleandirty Change image and share on social
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. Geoffrey West bigcitygreat Change image and share on social
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. Arnold J. Toynbee citymanoutdistance Change image and share on social