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Quotes About Urban

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
~ John Jay Chapman
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
~ Georg Simmel
Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.
~ DJ Premier
Chicago is a pretty good town.
~ Joe Torre
In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.
~ Renzo Rosso
If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
~ Ken Livingstone
If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
~ Jane Byrne
I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.
~ Mike D
New York basketball is about defense.
~ Stephon Marbury
For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.
~ Munira Mirza
My father used to run a shop in Sadar Bazar in old Delhi, and most of my time would go spending days and evenings at the shop, whiling away hours doing nothing.
~ Gulzar
I always capture one aspect or the other of Delhi in my raps.
~ Raftaar
The society in which we live in Delhi is conservative.
~ Tripti Dimri
Being from Jammu, I always saw Delhi as this big city where everyone would want to be.
~ Mukesh Rishi
If I miss anything about Delhi, it is my friends and the community living style.
~ Tripti Dimri
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
~ Lawrence Halprin
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
~ Christine Baranski
I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.
~ Chris Carmack
I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.
~ Chris Grayling
I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.
~ Jaimie Alexander
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
~ Will Oldham
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
~ Arthur Erickson
'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.
~ Tom Reiss
Detroit is a hard city.
~ J Dilla