Quotes about Metropolis
If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?
— El-P
Obviously I'm missing the city life.
— Sofia Kenin
Thousands of ordinary people were part of this metropolis, but their homes would have been perishable wattle and thatch, stuccoed with lime and mud. Every trace of their living has returned to the earth now, except for the limestone temples of art and worship. The things made of ambition, which rise higher than daily bread.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I love New York City.
— Li Na
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.
— John Milton
So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51
— Leonard Sweet