Crowded City Quotes

#1. A short woman might be difficult to see on a crowded city street, particularly if she has disguised herself as a mailbox, and people keep putting letters in her mouth.

Lemony Snicket

#2. The sun,
the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man
burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

Charles Dickens

#3. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.

Helen Keller

#4. The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.

Richard Rhodes

#5. electrons, the signal chain like a path through a crowded city,

Anthony Doerr

#6. Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

Hope Davis

#7. Merchant's Ware, the city most people thought of as the real city. Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd each be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-aboveboard way known as doing business.

Terry Pratchett

#8. In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.

Edward St. Aubyn

#9. In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Jacob Epstein

#11. I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

Samuel R. Delany

#12. You must be very proud; the whole city crowded with your lovers.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Tony Curtis

#15. We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.

Fennel Hudson

#16. Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

Ted Solotaroff

#18. This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

Karl Pilkington

#19. I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

#20. As he walked along the crowded streets, he almost wished for the old days, and carelessly wondered how many men he had killed here.

Jose Antonio Villareal

#21. On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Paul Goldberger

#22. New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.

Matthew Licht