Quotes About Urban

I really love this city above any I've ever been in; it is dear and graceful and elegant and what one makes it.

I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing.

His soul stretched tight across the skies That fade behind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four and five and six o'clock;

the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York

We had family dinner back in Brooklyn, up in our apartment.  Just eggs and gloom.

I have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men leaning out of windows

While trying to extricate his car from the collision, Mr. Piper reversed into a shop-window. When challenged, Mr. Piper said: "I thought it was all open country about here

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer?

to them. Irina's apartment was located over the plush clubby

Heavenly streams poured down, piercing the snow. It looked like someone had punctured it and blackened it with stone nails. The earth showed through in some places. Last year's rubbish surfaced on all the streets, in all the yards.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

l'uomo, allo stato di natura, nasce virtuoso; il vizio deriva dalla vita nella società mondane, esposta alle artefatte pressioni urbane.

There are cities that are damned for some people by the mere fact that they seem created to close off the distances that are the only reason for living.

A alma de uma grande cidade não se deixa apreender facilmente; é preciso, para se comunicar com ela, termo-nos aborrecido, termos de algum modo sofrido nos lugares que a circunscrevem.

Ingredientes: una acera, una piedrita, un zapato, y un bello dibujo con tiza, preferentemente de colores.

And the roaches. The roaches were so bold in his flat that turning on the lights did not startle them. They waved their three-inch antennas as if to say, Hey, puto, turn that shit off.

I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was one of those moments that would always be Rutgers for me.

The day is the color of pigeons.

where you'd parked your Civic.

They reached the Elizabeth exit, which is what New Jersey is really known for, industrial wastes on both sides of the turn-pike. He had started holding his breath against those horrible fumes when Ana let loose

City of memories, city of mirrors.