Quotes About Urban

I really like the city. I was able to drive around to see different place and I've been to a few different restaurants. I definitely like it and I'm happy to end up in Miami.

In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.

Detroit's really important to the success of our state. You know, you can't have a successful Michigan if the biggest city isn't a success as well.

Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It's a city by the airport. It's the first city when you're coming into L.A., and the last city when you leave.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to be the governor of just upstate.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

I've never lived in Los Angeles. I've always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.

You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

The government is talking about developing smart cities and to them, smart cities mean infrastructure. But to me, a city is smart when the mindset of the people is conducive to fitnness and health.

I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.

I spent a lot of time in Minneapolis.

If you live in Minneapolis, there's a 95 percent chance you live within a 10-minute walk to a park.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Entre la rencontre obligatoire du village (l'horreur) et l'anonymat total des mégapoles (l'enfer), Paris est la ville aux proportions justes.

God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.

As for my feet, the little feet You used to call so pretty, There's one, I know, in Bedford Row, The t'other's in the City.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.