Quotes About Urban

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

Why, if you're not in New York you are camping out.

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

In the busy haunts of men.

The people are the city.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

I love reading other people's papers on the Tube.

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.

Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.