Big cities squeeze the ability to be patient right out of…

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…

— Anna Godbersen

“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.”

— Helen Garner

“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep…

— John Hodgman

One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment…

— Kenneth Prewitt

My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting…

— Mahershala Ali

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's…

— Steffi Graf

Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've…

— Michael Urie

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial .…

— Paul Gallico

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…

— Scarlett Johansson

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone…

— Frederick Lenz

Big cities and bright lights. Sleep all day; long nights.

— Rihanna

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Lennart Meri