City Quotes

City life is millions of people being lonesome together. - Henry David Thoreau quote.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

solitude

The city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is an enlarged housekeeping. If American cities have failed...may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? - Jane Addams quote.

The city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is an enlarged housekeeping.  If American cities have failed...may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

The city has a face, the country a soul.
— Jacques de Lacretelle Idées dans un chapeau

rural country

In The Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. - O. Henry quote.

In The Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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