Quotes About Urban

West Street, but the sidewalks were

It was nothing like the rest of the city, no hills or views or bohemians, nothing Italian or Victorian to make you take a photograph.

McGovern's revenge also represents the Democrats' switch from a party of blue-collar workers to a party of urban elites—feminists, vegans, drug legalizers, untaxed hedge fund operators, and transgender-rights activists. Back when Democrats still claimed to represent working Americans, they opposed illegal immigration. Since being taken over by the Far Left, all that matters to them is changing the electorate to one that doesn't mind liberal insanity.

the Democrats' switch from a party of blue-collar workers to a party of urban elites—feminists, vegans, drug legalizers, untaxed hedge fund operators, and transgender-rights activists.

Yarn bombing is about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places," Delia answered

I think that kind of fashion sense comes naturally to anyone born on the island of Manhattan

Clothes. They've always been very important to me. Maybe that's also a part of being a city kid: in New York, I think even little children are aware of style.

The leaves were sun-baked lizards, stirring towards the sea that churned its chain of silver snakes, which would, if given half the chance, coil round, pull him out of this urban setting, vomit him on dry land.

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

You love each other until the city becomes beautiful.

In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies the loved ones. There are other trees. We can always squeeze in one more. Mind the tourists. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

I've been lucky enough to go on swell walks with talkative people all over the world and there really is something speedier and hopped up and deep about the magnificently blabbermouthed nature of friendship in New York.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?

There haven't been civilizations without cities. But what about cities without civilizations? An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another. No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens.

Search me, I said. I'm a city boy myself. They must be crocuses.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

Chicago is a pocket edition of hell," he wrote, "and if it is not, then hell is a pocket edition of Chicago.

in the heart of the city? Mr. Gordon Creighton

your second-hand bicycles in the alleyways

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements in that sentence are connected by an and and not by a but.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.