Quotes About Urban

New York City has the strictest gun laws in the country but that doesn't make any difference because all the guns come in from the outside, up the "Iron Pipeline.

Union Station was a perfect representative of the city. Sad, drab, dirty, and hopeless, it was the right place to enter Providence. You didn't get your hopes up.

Los Angeles isn't a tank town." "The hell it isn't. Los Angeles is three Long Islands next to each other. But no Midtown Tunnel.

The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle

New York is full of water, and neither looks it nor acts it. Of the five boroughs of the city, only one—the Bronx—is on the mainland of the United States, and yet you can spend months in New York without seeing any water except what comes out of the faucet.

A ladder, in this neighborhood, whadawe gonna do? Wear Con Edison coveralls and helmets? To lean on an alarm box?

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

New York is truly a city of baked goods.

It's a city that has its own heartbeat. I just can't believe how many people there are, how crowded it is, how sophisticated everyone looks.

There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound. It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.

We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.