New York is a big city. Not that St. Louis isn't big, but it just doesn't seem very big out here where we live.
— Mrs. Anna Smith (Mary Astor)
8 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:10:51.164 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- I thought we'd all like to have Christmas in St. Louis.
- It will take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls from the cemetery.
- Come back here, you two. There'll be no packing as yet.
- There are a great many things to talk over and I must say you two are being very cool about it.
- Why, Anna. I thought you'd be overjoyed.
- And what will the children do?
- The same as they do here: go to school, play, have their friends over.
- The friends they'll meet in school.
- You will someday, if they'll take you in.
- And Agnes just ready to be promoted and Esther going to be a senior.
- I've worked all my life to be a senior.
[...]