Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Cities Quotes, Parks Quotes

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

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Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

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Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

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It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

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

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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