Big Cities Quotes - Page 4

• The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

  Boris Johnson

  Cities, Volunteer, Earth

  "Interview with Boris Johnson". Interview with Charlie Kenber, londoncalling.com. July 10, 2013.

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• 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

  Fighting, Cities, Guy

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• I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.

  Chris McCaughan

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

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• If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.

  Walter Millis

  Thinking, Cities, California

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• It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghettoes and basketball is a great schoolyard game. You don't need a lot of space or equipment and you can adapt it to how many players you have.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• 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

  Home, Cities, Bigs

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• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  Fernando Torres

  Moving, Cities, People

  "Fernando Torres: Full transcript of the £50m striker's first interview since joining Chelsea". Chelsea TV Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

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• At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Night, Dope

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• In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Years, Cities, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Cities, Philadelphia, Letters

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. 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; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Spiritual, Unique, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• 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

  Writing, Boys, Cities

  "Manhattan transfer". Interview with D.T. Max, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2000.

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• 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

  Sweet, Thinking, Cities

  "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, it’s an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard.

  Jeff Belanger

  Adventure, Unique, Past

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Accepting, Bigs

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• The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

  Phillip Lopate

  Party, Cities, Dinner

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.148, Basic Books

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• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  Karin Fossum

  Writing, Cities, Community

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• 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

  Confused, Reality, Cities

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• When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

  Elvis Presley

  Reality, Men, Cities

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• Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Country, Cities, Would Be

  Song: We Are Young Country

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• 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

  Beauty, Spiritual, Uncontrollable Urge

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

  Bertrand Delanoe

  Cities, Facts, Architecture

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• I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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