Big Cities Quotes

• Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

  Toyo Ito

  Cities, People, World

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• The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

  James de la Vega

  Dream, Sight, Cities

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• 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

  Friendship, New York, Years

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• Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.

  Michael Urie

  Moving, Cities, People

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• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Cities, United States

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• 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. O'Rourke

  Cities, Perspective, Poverty

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• I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

  Iain Banks

  Cities, Scotland, Fans

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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• 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

  Artist, Cities, Looks

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Cities

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  A. J. Liebling

  Cities, Chicago, Bigs

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Chicago: The Second City”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Cities, Swamps

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

  Lennart Meri

  Cities, Bigs, Chains

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• The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Cities, America

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• 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

  Depressing, Money, Thinking

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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  Ville Valo

  Europe, Cities, Firsts

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• I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

  John Lee Hooker

  Light, Cities, Taste

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• 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

  Men, Flames, Cities

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1513, Delphi Classics

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• Nations die first in the big cities.

  Austin O'Malley

  Cities, Firsts, Bigs

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• My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

  Steve Aoki

  Years, Cities, Littles

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• A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

  Margot Adler

  Gay, Bisexual, Cities

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