George VI Quotes

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

People make a city, it's not the other way round.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I hope we get a real diversity in perspectives from the good, the bad and the ugly. I love living in London so I hope there are submissions that celebrate the City while also showing that there are many challenges we need to face together.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

I love cities.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.