Small Town Vs. Big City Quotes

#1. Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

Dustin Milligan

#2. I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

Kacey Musgraves

#3. Beach party?
Michigan is surrounded by water on three sides. We may not have waves, but we have lots of beaches.
Beaches are useless without waves.
Not my point. Even though I happen to agree.

Kelly Oram

#4. 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

#5. I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

Rodney Atkins

#6. Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

Sam Altman

#7. My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#8. I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Cynthia Kenyon

#9. Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.

David Mitchell

#10. It didn't really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.

Markus Zusak

#11. I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

Andy Cohen

#12. 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

#13. What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

Samantha Shannon

#14. On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Alison Gopnik

#15. We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.

Teri S. Lesesne

#16. Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice.
Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.

Leslie Meier

#17. One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

John Ortberg

#18. I've got issues?" "You've got a whole subscription.

J.A. Konrath

#19. One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Friedrich Schiller

#20. Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

James Altucher

#21. Jack throws his hands up. Okay, is this some kind of a joke? Seriously, you are being the voice of reason here? I can't handle this. Please start freaking out.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#22. Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

Meghan Daum

#23. She'd rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town.

Lorelei James

#24. My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

Daniel Radcliffe