Large City Quotes

15 quotes by 14 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
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
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
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
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
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
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live… — Robert Kennedy

Who Wrote These Large City Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Large City Quotes as follows: