Large Cities Quotes

• Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Cities, Moonlight, Should

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• I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.374, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cities, Able, Life Is

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Europe, Cities

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.363, Cambridge University Press

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• A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Morning, Men, Fog

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• 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

  Cities, Violence, Sometimes

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Change, Equality, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, Safe, Pay

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Play, Cities

  1957 In the New York Herald Tribune.

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• I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political machines in a lot of large cities, and everywhere the goals of society get lost.

  Angela Alioto

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

  Jonathan Raban

  Cities, Details, Chaos

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.244

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• From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Europe, Cities

  Edmund Wilson (1966). “Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964”, Vintage

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• 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

  Freedom, Men, Cities

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• We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cities, America, Crime

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• Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cities, Different, Extravagance

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.303, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Average

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

  Minoru Mori

  Cities, Environmental, Population

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• So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.

  William H. Macy

  Lying, Cities, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Cities, Office

  Frank Moore Colby (1904). “Imaginary Obligations”

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• Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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