Big Cities Quotes
90 Big Cities quotes by 84 unique authors
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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…
— John Lee Hooker
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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…
— Anna Godbersen
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We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when…
— Dorothy Day
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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.
— Dave Matthews
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The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities
— Vince Cable
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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…
— Eli Manning
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That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.
— Chris Paul
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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…
— Thomas Frank
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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
— Alison Gopnik
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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…
— Edward Hopper
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can…
— Adriana Lima
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Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone…
— Eric McCormack
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does…
— Susan Orlean
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My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
— Salman Rushdie
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In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness…
— Rob Sheffield
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Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is…
— Matt Taibbi
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Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
— Juan Williams
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic…
— Juan Williams
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form…
— Malcolm X
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Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
— Richard Peck
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That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.
— Anna Godbersen
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I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the…
— Tina Fey
Who Wrote These Big Cities Quotes
84 authors contributed a total of 90 Big Cities Quotes, led by these top contributors: