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Quotes About Urban

For the London in which he had grown up had been a congeries of estates, parks, and compounds
~ Neal Stephenson
he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.
~ Neal Stephenson
Have more car tunnels, [and you] alleviate congestion completely." —ELON MUSK
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.
~ Neil Simon
The good news was that the streets were litter-free, maybe because no one had anything to throw away.
~ Nelson DeMille
Put up a winery and you get ten thousand wine-sipping yuppie slime from the nearest urban center.
~ Nelson DeMille
There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were…well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.
~ Nelson DeMille
the guy from the Midwest goes up to a New Yorker on the street and says, "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?
~ Nelson DeMille
without efficient public plumbing cities are death-traps
~ Niall Ferguson
Even today, you can still see the empty lots that the riots left in their wake.
~ Niall Ferguson
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
~ Simeon Strunsky
I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
~ Abel Ferrara
New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.
~ Peter Hedges
The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.
~ Logan Green
I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.
~ Zawe Ashton
Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.
~ John Gregory Dunne
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
~ Vikas Swarup
Mumbai is the most cosmopolitan city.
~ Mani Ratnam
Mumbai is not safe anymore.
~ Kumar Sanu
I'm a city boy, born and brought up in Mumbai. I talk fast, have a certain sense of humour, and have grown up watching Jackie Chan movies.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
~ Amy Jackson
I miss Mumbai when I'm not here. The city does that to you, and it's exciting.
~ Kriti Kharbanda
I've got more than half of Mumbai addicted to the Internet.
~ Jackie Shroff