Quotes About Urban

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

The tall, leaning buildings to either side shrouded the narrow passage in shadow.

flash of sorcery ignited the air above the front street, followed by an agonized shriek.