Quotes About Urban

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

Not many people like Johannesburg, but I love the place.

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

In some cities, McDonald's rules, but Seattle is ruled by teriyaki joints.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

Parece que hoy toca hablar de Madrid. Madrid es una gran ciudad, o por lo menos una ciudad grande.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass.

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.

the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not do so to this day. Full veiling is an urban and largely modern institution.

Many of our discussions took place as we walked up and down the streets, sat on benches or stood in doorways taking shelter from the rain.

Not, perhaps, so elegant as your Berkeley Square, but sometimes, even here, you can hear a Nightingale sing.

Chicago? It caught fire over a hundred years ago... an' no one's ever bothered to put it out.

Every single thing in the city that we touch, see, feel, experience comes as the result of some person's influence.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Es un disparate intentar educar a los hijos dentro de una ciudad. El primer paso ha de ser sacarlos de ella.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.