Blake Griffin Quotes

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Charlotte, it's what somebody from New York or L.A. would say is a small town, but it isn't. It's right in between being a small town and a city. It's more of a city.

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.

I love Chicago. I love the big city. But, remember, I come from a town, Lovington, N.M., that only has 8,000 people.

Where I'm from, Toronto, is a big city.

There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.