Big City Quotes
Collection of top 91 famous quotes about Big City
Big City Quotes & Sayings
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
— Samantha Shannon
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
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
— Susan Hill
After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.
— Mark Lawrence
I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.
— Ruth Rendell
It seems impossible, in a big city like Paris, but you can waste hours looking for the right place to burn up a corpse.
— Italo Calvino
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
— Jack Reynor
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
— Mireille Guiliano
People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
— Nigel Barker
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
— Jerry Rubin
Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
— Irv Kupcinet
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
— Krist Novoselic
In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.
— Ari Marcopoulos
Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.
— Sara Sheridan
You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
— Randee Heller
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.
— Mike Binder
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
— A.J. Liebling
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
— Ethel Waters
He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
— Trombone Shorty
how does a big city worm end up surfing the big waves in hawaii.
— Ricky Mickiewicz
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
— Rodney Atkins
I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.
— Caroline Leavitt
I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.
— Brian Posehn
Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.
— Chris Noth
When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
— James St. James
Taste is a matter of taste.
— Jay McInerney
It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.
— Brandon Jacobs
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
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
— Jack Canfield
One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.
— Dries Van Noten
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a big change ... it's a big city, it's very fast.
— Kate DeAraugo
A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn't know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.
— Hank Williams Jr.
You shouldn't be wandering around insuch a big city all by yourself. Even if it is Seattle. — Nenia Campbell
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
— Bill De Blasio
Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show. (on Manchester City) — Claudio Reyna
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
— Albert Camus
Harlem sleeps late.
— Jacob M. Appel
When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
— Daphne Zuniga
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
— Robbie Robertson
Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.
— Gina Greenlee
I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
— Louis Oosthuizen
Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.
— Joseph Pisani
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
— Dan Savage
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
— Jay McInerney
Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.
— Jay McInerney
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I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.
— Gerald Chertavian
There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.
— Mark Shields
Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.
— Candace Bushnell
Was it possible to have an apartment sprayed for evil spirits like one would for bugs, or set up traps like for those big, city rats?
— K.L. Burrell
Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods.
— Elizabeth Massie
I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.
— Jeanette Winterson
It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.
— Christina Baker Kline
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
— Lenny Kravitz
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
L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
— Cassie Steele
I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.
— Kyo Maclear
Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
— Albert Bigelow Paine
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream ... Hang in there.
— James De La Vega
In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
— Barbara Corcoran
