Large Cities Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. — Michael Bloomberg
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000.… — Anthony Burgess
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there… — Thomas Jefferson
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city,… — Minoru Mori
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of… — Minoru Yamasaki
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. — Fran Lebowitz
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and… — John R. Lott Jr.
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order… — Spencer W. Kimball
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are… — George Washington
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly… — Jonathan Raban
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock… — Victor Hugo
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men… — Charles Dickens
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that… — Edmund Wilson
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than… — Morris Raphael Cohen

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