A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.

—Burt Bacharach

I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.

—Lenny Bruce

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.

—anonymous

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

—Sheryl Crow

Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage — a village is the place. There you can know your man inside and out — in a city you but know his crust; and his crust is usually a lie.

—Mark Twain

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

—Herbert Prochnow

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius — and his selfishness and errors.

—Charles Abrams

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.

—David Letterman

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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—Christopher Morley