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Big City Quotes

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
- Albert Camus

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
- Terry Bradshaw

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.
- Jean De Brunhoff

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet.
- Tina Fey

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
- Edward Hopper

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
- January Jones

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

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
- A J Liebling

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
- Adriana Lima

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
- Malcolm X

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
- Ernst Mayr

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
- Jerry Moran

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
- P J Orourke

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
- Richard Peck

What do you do when you find yourself out in a lieeven a white one? Well, one thing for sure, you don't put on black, you don't mourn and beat out a staccato mea culpa on your breast. You go! Get the hell out! Take a chance! Forget you're an American, living in the suburbs of success, hoping to move into the big city...You go!
- Vincent Price

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.
- Jonathan Richman

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

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
- Anne Rivers Siddons

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
- Fritz Todt

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
- James De La Vega

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

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

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