The Big City Quotes: top 58 famous quotes about The Big City

The Big City Quotes & Sayings

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We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. — John Lennon

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

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

What is a big city girl like you doing out in the middle of nowhere with a country boy like me on a Tuesday night in October?"
"Enjoying life... — Lee DeBourg

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell. — Jeff Lemire

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters

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

In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town. — W.C. Fields

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

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately. — Chris Noth

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

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

The loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening. — Willa Gibbs

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

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city. — Ari Marcopoulos

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

Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show.
(on Manchester City) — Claudio Reyna

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

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. — O. Henry

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

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned — Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning — Nostradamus

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art. — 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

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

I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible. — Imtiaz Ali

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

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn't know how to swim finds himself at its bottom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods. — Elizabeth Massie

The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone. — Joe Meno

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

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. — Paula Cole

Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him. — Candace Bushnell

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city. — Roy Oswalt

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

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. — Geoffrey West

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

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

In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner. — Gina Greenlee

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

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

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. — Big Sean

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside. — Paulo Coelho

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. — Barbara Corcoran

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

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

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

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world — Munia Khan