Big city Quote by Christina Baker Kline Download Open image ““It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.”” — Christina Baker Kline ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big city City Youth
“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, parents & children become the most common strangers. Eventually, a street appears where they can meet again.” — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
“I am no longer young, and I’ve seen many things worth seeing. Yet, even now, the way the road bends still sweeps me off… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.” — Deborah Garner Copy Share Image
“The world is wide and beautiful and there are many wonderful places in it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown. He plants… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I try to forget the horror of what happened. Or—perhaps forget is the wrong word. How can I forget? And yet how can I move forward even a step without tamping down the despair I feel? When I close my eyes, I hear Maisie’s cries and Mam’s screams, smell the acrid smoke that must have started from that pile of… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share
“don’t know how much of my memory of this time is affected by my age now and how much is a result of the age I was then—seven when we left Kinvara, nine on that night when Maisie wouldn’t stop crying, that night that, even more than leaving Ireland, changed the course of my life forever. Eighty-two years later, the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share
“The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Every Easter she and her mother planted those crocuses near the fence beside the driveway, and soon enough a whole cluster of them, white… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mr. Kaminski pulled a chain hanging from the pressed-metal kitchen ceiling, and light seeped from a bulb, casting a wan glow over a scarred… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ... Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it’s almost painful—a knife’s edge of joy.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“What was it the teacher in her Legal Issues class said the other day? Never bring up a point you don’t have an answer… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Truly , there isn't much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is the ultimate step. making art is at the bottom of the scale. This is the only legitimate reason to see artists as so many artists see themselves - as 'workers'. At the same time, artists/makers tend… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
“Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. To sit on the front steps--whether it's a veranda in a small town or… — Harvey Milk Copy Share
I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'Get me to New York. Get me to a big city.' I was always much… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view – the point of view of the creature who experiences them.… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share
When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot… — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
