Big Cities Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Cities

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel. I have definitely come to call it my home, and have my favorite go-to spots. But most of all it's the people. The southern charm, and hospitality. And some great shopping never hurts. As fun as Music City is during the day, the real magic happens at night ... The lights, the energy, the music, how could you not love this town?

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hurt, Fun, Real

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• 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

  School, Cities, People

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• It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, New York, Cities

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

  Vince Cable

  Party, Cities, Rural Areas

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

  Chris Paul

  Cities, Judging, Style

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.

  Peter Drucker

  Horse, Cities, People

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.290, Routledge

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• I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.

  George Ade

  Country, Pride, Cities

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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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• Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Night, Cities

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• I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Cities, People, Guy

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• We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

  John Hench

  Color, Cities, Feelings

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Home, Fate

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• ...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

  Adolf Hitler

  Destiny, Cities, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.

  Diane Kruger

  Cities, Germany, Actors

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

  Chris Matthews

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Girlfriend, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

  Vicki Baum

  Cities, Solitude, Bigs

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• If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dirty, Mean

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• The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

  Patti Smith

  Fashion, Artist, Cities

  Source: the-talks.com

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• It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody.

  Jaime King

  Thinking, Cities, Want Something

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"

  Jaime King

  Morning, Kindness, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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