Quotes About Urban

Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.

It is as if the city has a bloodstream flowing through it, oxygenated by books.

At last count, in 2017, there were almost sixty thousand homeless people in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

There was no city, no London, just beacon fires on all three sacred mounds.

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

It began to rain in that rushed and urgent way that it rains in New York.

Maybe you got a date in the city. You're going to get laid. A stranger, someone new, 'cause you wouldn't take the trouble for someone you already fucked.

The average life expectancy for a black man in an American city is something like twenty-three very short years. The reality of that had never fully kicked in before, but it did that night. And I thought, hell, I'm at risk just walking around.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

A wide ladder with rubber treads on the steps allows for a swift, easy descent into the bowels of the city.

We stop before a grimy storefront filled with mannequins in furry underwear.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

The food in New York is absolutely fabulous. There's always something new around the corner!

A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

In my sophomore year of high school, I watched my friend Loretta leave in a U-Haul headed for Oakland. She and her mom had been tenants in a nearby apartment, forced out by rent they couldn't afford anymore.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.