Quotes About Urban

The man in the street is always a stranger.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

you don't need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that's all.

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.