Motivational Quotations about Cities

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have an affection for a great city.  I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.  

Horace

Cities are the abyss of the human species.  

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Herbert Prochnow

The city disappears street by street as you enter it. 

Ian Seed

God made the country, and man made the town.  

William Cowper

Suburb:  a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.  

Mignon McLaughlin

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. 

Marcus Terentius Varro

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.  

Cyril Connolly

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes

All cities are mad:  but the madness is gallant.  All cities are beautiful:  but the beauty is grim.  

Christopher Morley

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.  

Philip G. Hamerton

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.  

Desmond Morris

Quotations about Childhood

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. 

 Katherine Anne Porter

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.  

Cynthia Ozick

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.  

Bill Bryson

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.  Author Unknown

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.  

Malcolm de Chazal

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. 

Ellen Glasgow

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.  

Mark Twain

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.  

Robert Brault

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at....

Williston Fish

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?  

Louis de Bernières

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.  

Sam Ewing

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.  

John Betjeman