Quotes About Urban

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern?

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they're doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

People in New York love having roof parties.

I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.

Outside, life in Manhattan continued, oblivious, fast-moving, ignoring the detritus that piled up in the gutter.

I had spent months wishing I had more free time. Now that I had it, I found the city was not a friendly place without money to burn.

Seeing an endless red stream of tail lights, an automotive blood supply

The plants have long since withered and died. I am apparently not very good at looking after things. Now I stand on the roof, staring out at London's winking darkness below. Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace.

The city feels as alien as to me as it always has. But, then, everywhere does, these days.

Since when did the whole of London begin getting up so early? Everyone has had the same idea.

It's all about the parking

There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.

If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings.

Miestuose per daug cemento ir bat?, batuk?. Kult?ra yra basose kojose.

Ultimately, it was a battle between those who believed that it was folly to think Hillary could show up in lower-population areas and change hearts and minds and those who believed, just as firmly, that politics and Hillary's path to victory were fundamentally about doing just that. That elemental split hung over nearly every internal skirmish over strategy and tactics—from

Red everywhere on Waze, as if the city were bleeding.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

An alleyway is a disappointed road, waiting for someone to widen it.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.