"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't." - Burt Bacharach

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

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

"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

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim." - Christopher Darlington Morley, Where the Blue Begins

"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." - Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

"Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
A rose-red city half as old as Time!"
- JOHN WILLIAM BURGON, Petra

"Cities are the abyss of the human species." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Émile