Quotes About Urban

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

For me, safety is a huge parameter for a city's progress. If your city is safe, it is progressing.

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

I think that continuity is the most important way to create a city that functions properly and has a competitive edge in the international era.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. "I wither slowly in thine arms," he read. "Here at the quiet limit of the world," and repeated to himself: "Here at the quiet limit of the world. Here at the quiet limit of the world"… as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer.

in that city there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.

We'll meet you on some corner. I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes.

It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which only New York afternoons indulge. A breeze was crying down the streets, whisking along battered newspapers and pieces of things, and little lights were pricking out all the windows- it was so desolate that one was sorry for the tops of sky-scrapers lost up there in the dark green and gray heaven.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness

En el crepúsculo encantado de la metrópolis a veces sentía una fascinante soledad, y la sentía en otros: pobres y jóvenes oficinistas que rondaban los escaparates hasta que llegaba la hora de su solitaria cena en un restaurante; jóvenes oficinistas al anochecer, desperdiciando los momentos más intensos de la noche y de la vida.

one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.

I liked to walk up Fith Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

Urban areas take up less than 3% of the earth's surface while housing a majority of its inhabitants.

Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place.

Yes, the sounds of the city on this long Sunday – so many, all at odds, and all of them right.

Other people are no more for us than scenery, generally the invisible scenery of a street we know by heart.