Greater Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles may refer to:

  • The Greater Los Angeles Area, a large metropolitan region in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties
  • The Los Angeles metropolitan area, an urban area in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange Counties

Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, greater, los and/or angeles:

    “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
    —Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)

    “There is not a greater paradox in nature,—than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “If Los Angeles has been called “the capital of crackpots” and “the metropolis of isms,” the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the city’s idiosyncrasies to the newcomer—at least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)