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- 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… — 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… — Samuel Johnson
- The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As… — Minoru Mori
- If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from 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… — 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… — 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… — Jonathan Raban
- A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens