Quotes of: Big-city Keyword

I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

Frank Thomas

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Clare Balding

If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.

Afghan

You arrive Mr. Big Shot but leave Mr. Nobody.

Zulu

Dare To Dream Big, Think Big, Live Big And Believe Big In Your Life. Now Focus On That Spectacular Sunset...Because Destiny Is Calling You!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.

Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what...

The Powerbook

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' f...

Stella Young

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

Thomas Frank

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadi...

Leonard Woodcock

Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated e...

Charles Duhigg

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and fog...

Herb Caen

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

Christian Louboutin

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest ...

Jonathan Raban

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

Frank Luntz

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Aretha Franklin

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

One great building does not make a great city.

Thomas Heatherwick

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

Italo Calvino

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann