Large cities quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • all large cities are alike at night. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
  • The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. -- George Washington
  • Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. -- Minoru Yamasaki
  • Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
  • American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. -- Joseph McCarthy
  • The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. -- George Washington
  • Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. -- Anthony Burgess
  • In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich. -- David Joseph Schwartz
  • Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something. -- Andrew Natsios
  • The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management. -- Irwin Redlener
  • I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified. -- Dave Hunt
  • Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes. -- John R. Lott Jr.
  • In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris. -- Victor Hugo
  • Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. -- A. J. Liebling
  • A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
  • Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -- George Burns
  • Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business. -- Prince
  • We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. -- Cyril Connolly
  • Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. -- Claes Oldenburg
  • A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. -- Samuel Johnson
  • American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. -- Kenneth Tynan
  • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. -- Aldous Huxley
  • As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns. -- John O. Brennan
  • The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. -- William Hazlitt
  • In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates. -- Roger B. Taney
  • Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities. -- Iggy Pop
  • The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. -- Jerry A. Webman
  • General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. -- Mercy Otis Warren
  • Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. -- Josiah Strong
  • The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies. -- James Patterson
  • If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. -- Robert Kennedy
  • A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city. -- Leon Krier
  • Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. -- Warren Ellis
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share