Quotes About Urban

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

Ingesting poison, fighting for food, being attacked by a larger rat or beaten with a toilet plunger: these are everyday rat dangers that make the life expectancy of the rat in the city approximately one year.

But the enthusiasm of the urban plebs for the gods of the Delta caused some disturbances. In 59 BC, when the Senate ordered the destruction of the altars of Serapis, Harpocrates and Anubis, they were very soon reinstated 'owing to the violence of the people's intervention

en la calle, Erdosain observó que orvallaba,

Caminaba como antes por las calles, miraba los objetos que se exhiben en las vitrinas, y hasta me detenía sorprendido frente a ciertas ingeniosidades de la industria, mas la verdad es que estaba horriblemente solo.

cuando el comercio se muestra en su desnudez espantosa. Las cortinas metálicas tienen rigideces agresivas

la noche del DF, una noche que a mí siempre me ha parecido preciosa, generalmente las noches aquí son frescas, brillantes, pero no frías, noches hechas para pasear o para coger, noches hechas para platicar sin apuro.

Afuera la gente camina a prisa, encogida, no como si aguardaran una tormenta, sino como si la tormenta ya estuviera aquí, sin embargo, nadie parece tener miedo.

Without ever deciding to, Collin moved his legs. He crossed the bustling downtown street, just aware enough of the cars, buses, and bicycles zipping by to dodge them. But his eyes remained on the man who looked like him, who checked his watch No, that's my watch, he reminded himself-and then picked up his pace, apparently realizing he was about to be late for work. Late for

Collin Boyd stepped off the Metro bus on his way to work, and across the street he saw himself strolling down the sidewalk. A stubborn

A stubborn but warm February rain was pouring hard across the concrete canyons of downtown. His foot had landed ankle-deep in a drainage puddle, and his half-broken umbrella wasn't extending as it should. But the umbrella, which had rarely seen use, quickly fell out of his hands

Wear it around your neck," his mother told him anxiously. "I hear those cutpurses in the cities can have away with a purse off a man's belt and he never feels a tug.

We don't do that in New York, rasped Odette. She cleared her throat. No? Pinky smiled and put his hand on her thigh. No, it's, um, the cash machines. You just… you wait at them. Forever. Your whole life you're just always — her hand sliced the air—there.

One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time.

He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

I don't have anybody available to send up there to help you out. We're kind of up to our elbows in enemy sympathizers right now in Los Angeles.

City folks dress a sight different than we-uns and you don't want to shame yourself.

A parte habitada da cidade estendia-se da Battery até o Common.

os nova-iorquinos já obedeciam ao futuro estereótipo de serem pessoas que falavam rápido, abriam caminho a cotoveladas e corriam como loucos atrás de dinheiro.

pero de pronto me abrumó la idea de salir a la calle, de pisar de nuevo la ciudad a esa hora sucia del atardecer, hora perdida de pasos perdidos, hora inútil.

Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages