Quotes About Busy Cities

#1. Damn you!" Dagenham raged, "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good." "Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

Alfred Bester

#2. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

John Milton

#3. I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Pete Sampras

#4. I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#5. Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere.
(Year 2036 John Titor)

John Titor Foundation

#6. When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.

Nikki Rowe

#7. I wonder about something. How can I live before you come?

Yuli Pritania

#8. I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#9. Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother.

Alexandra Potter

#10. 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Robert Browning

#11. Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Terry Pratchett

#12. The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

Derek Jarman

#13. Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

Douglas Wilson

#14. My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Yoko Ono

#15. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Winston S. Churchill

#16. In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

Kylie Tennant

#17. I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.

Nina Agdal

#18. City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Mary Augusta Ward

#19. Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

George Santayana

#20. Stop listening to people who don't experience happiness, success, peace, and fulfillment themselves. Don't let them tell you what is right and wrong!

Maddy Malhotra