Big city Quotes

“Taste is a matter of taste.”

— Jay McInerney

I don't like a big city.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

I might just not be a big-city bug.

— Tara Westover

I'm not a big city guy. I like it quieter.

— Jim Miller

Where I'm from, Toronto, is a big city.

— Andrew Wiggins

I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.

— Steve Zahn

“San Francisco’s a big city, but it can feel like a small town in some ways,” he offered.”

— Alice Clayton

I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

— Louis Oosthuizen

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

— Boris Johnson

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

— Nostradamus

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

— Willa Gibbs

So I don't know a lot of London but I know it's a big city, it's a wonderful city.

— Joao Felix

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

— Caroline Leavitt

L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can…

— Cassie Steele

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President…

— Jack Canfield

Big city mayors don't play well with voters outside their city anymore. Just ask John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Kevin White, Tom Bradley,…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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…

— Terry Bradshaw

I do explore the city if I have the time for it, but normally, I would rather stay relaxed at home. London…

— Alexis Sanchez

I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'Get me to New York. Get me to a big city.' I was…

— Joan Allen

You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees…

— Edwin Diamond

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

— John Hodgman

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the…

— Eric McCormack

The pursuit of market-rate pay equity is about far more than respect. It's a matter of fairness, considering the increased workload that…

— Eric Adams

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could…

— Karin Fossum

“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open…

— Claire Messud

Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I…

— Paul Smith

It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door…

— Philippe Falardeau

If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Being in Milwaukee, being in Wisconsin, it's not a big city, it's cold, right? So we have to work for the stuff…

— Jordan Poole

“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis…

— Edward Luce

The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living…

— Fritz Todt

I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New…

— Scarlett Johansson

“Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning…

— Lucy R. Lippard

I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“They came out into the open, and it was the grimy backwaters of Jersey City now. Tall factory stacks, and fires burning,…

— Cornell Woolrich

“One of the mistakes we make in handling God’s Word is that we reduce it to a set of directions on how…

— Timothy S. Lane

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

— Lennie James

“You shouldn't be wandering around in such a big city all by yourself. Even if it is Seattle.”

— Nenia Campbell

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

— Vicki Baum