Best Big Cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As for those who come to the big cities and change, fanciful cities just stimulate their inner desires.”

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“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“But she was Barbara Monroe, of Chicago, Illinois. She had attended a big-city high school, Mather. A big school in a big city was easier to fake than a small one, because anyone could be forgotten in a big school.”

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Book:What the Dead Know: Reviewd

Source: What the Dead Know: Reviewd

“What remains of the world at the end?” She asked him. “The noise of machines, newspapers, bombs, the craziness in the big cities, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow. And then, what remains? What remains, my dear, will never be the world, but only the gods.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.”

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Book:Animals

Source: Animals

“All major cities in the world look best at night because night skilfully hides their ugly side!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“While you are running from one place to another in the big city, you feel that your life is running away from you, because in a sense, life is time!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What people that town produces! Nothing but dead, useless things come out of the town and can pass across the borders. Perhaps we used to be something like that ... there's no one here but people who never learned to make their fortune in town. And people who prefer misfortune out here to misfortune in town. Out here, it has the advantage that it can't be confused with fortune. Here no one needs to deceive himself. Here no one needs to forget.”

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Book:The Tidings of the Trees

Source: The Tidings of the Trees

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and the same time.”

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Author:Louis Yako

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!”

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Author:Daphne Zuniga

“I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.”

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Author:John Lee Hooker

“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”

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Author:Anna Godbersen

“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.”

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Author:Dave Matthews

“The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities”

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Author:Vince Cable

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.”

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Author:Chris Paul

“And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.”

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Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“Nations die first in the big cities.”

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Author:Austin O'Malley

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”

“Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.”

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Author:Lennart Meri

“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

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Author:Fritz Todt

“Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.”

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Author:Alison Gopnik

“I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.”

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Author:Mike Binder

“Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.”

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Author:Willa Gibbs

“L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.”

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Author:Cassie Steele

“You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.”

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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”

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Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Youre perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.”

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Author:Jerry Moran

“in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.”

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Author:Vicki Baum

“If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody.”

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Author:Jaime King

“I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"”

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Author:Jaime King

“I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.”

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Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.”

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Author:Malalai Joya

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

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Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“Well, I'm kind of an urban girl, I like big cities. I like New York, I like London, I like L.A. I like people, I get lonely, really, really easily. But, I think it was good. It was very different and I think that's good.”

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Author:AnnaSophia Robb

“Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.”

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Author:Edward Hopper

“The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.”

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Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.”

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Author:Roy Oswalt

“I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.”

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Author:Jeremy Bonderman

“We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.”

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Author:John Hench

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