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Quotes About Urban

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.
~ Donald Trump
Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.
~ Chris Christie
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
~ John Tesh
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.
~ Margaret Beckett
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.
~ Donald Shoup
Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.
~ Charles Montgomery
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
~ Helmut Jahn
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
~ Madeleine Peyroux
January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.
~ Maj Sjowall
The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven.
~ Unknown
Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.
~ Unknown
welcome sign that shouted: "We love visitors in Sunshine, Texas! Stay for a while—we'll make you smile!" Underneath that horrible threat was the number of idiots who lived here: 403. I was already claustrophobic. I preferred big cities with their bad drivers, polluted skies, shitty attitudes, and endless cheap motel and diner options.
~ Mandy M. Roth
In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.
~ Unknown
Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.
~ Unknown
Raum ist der Ausdruck der Gesellschaft.
~ Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells
~ Unknown
Le métro relie des points algébriques, des lieux et des êtres.
~ Unknown
The average urban family spent fully one-third of its budget on food.8
~ Unknown
By 375 the occupancy of villas had fallen by a third, and in towns it had fallen by a half.
~ Unknown
If you bomb a city, then rebuild it, the data shows a huge spike in economic activity.
~ John Perkins
The base of the water tower gave every indication of being a solid argument for tetanus shots.
~ John Scalzi
As a general rule when it's a city bus versus any biological creature, it's safe to bet on the bus.
~ John Scalzi
Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
~ John Steinbeck