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The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) — Tom Callahan

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. — Samantha Shannon

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. — E.B. White

Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead — Giorgio Bassani

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. — Leon Battista Alberti

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g. — J.G. Ballard

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

On the balcony of our small flat in a city of small flats. — Jerry Pinto

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead. — Robert D. Kaplan

She'd rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town. — Lorelei James

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. — P. J. O'Rourke

Naodyma isn't exactly a one-temple town, you know. — Andrew Ashling

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change. — Alex Steffen

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away. — Jane Jacobs

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. — Theodore Roosevelt

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City. — Robin Lord Taylor

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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 come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric. — Lynn Flewelling

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light! — Israelmore Ayivor

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite. — Sophocles

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison. — Wilkie Collins

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. — Alison Gopnik

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. — Herb Caen

Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future. — Vikram Roy

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

The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans. — Ron Jaworski

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones. — Gina Greenlee

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was. — John Wyndham

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small. — Inbar Lavi

He was from upstate New York. Albany or something. A small city so buried in snow it looked flat white in satellite pictures for a third of the year. — C.D. Reiss

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. — Lori Lansens

By the end of a short walk, the septic tip of a cane probably collects enough germs to destroy a small city. — Charles Willeford

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

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

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. — Plato

The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris." — Louis Garrel

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment. — Adam Dunn