Quotes About Urban

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

In this land of great opportunity and few roads (in most regions the Alaskan Highway is the only real road), the immense distances can only be reasonably handled by air, in fact, half of all the private aircraft in the world are registered in Alaska. Near any urban center, such as they were, I couldn't look up into the sky without seeing at least one fixed wing clawing itself into the sky.

Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon.

At the same time there seemed to be more white people on the streets of Harlem than at any time in the past twenty years. Many of them appeared to be on the most intimate terms with the Negroes, laughing, talking, dining and dancing in a most un-Caucasian way. This sort of association had always gone on at night but seldom in the daylight.

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

Generally, most cities across the US have become unsafe due to petty thieves, daytime attacks, and night attacks.

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

had to beg a fare in the metro—missing the

A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

I like to visit New York, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.

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

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

A great city, a great solitude.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.

Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Ko u Sarajevu provodi no? budan u krevetu, taj može da ?uje glasove sarajevske no?i.

Roarke: I'll drop you. Eve: No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me. Roarke: You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece. Eve: Sometimes you're my love muffin. He managed a strangled laugh.She could, at the oddest times, surprise him.