Quotes About Urban

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

In theory, vegetarianism is a lifestyle that anyone might adopt. In practice, vegetarianism is popular among a very specific slice of the general population in the Western world: young urban women. Studies of vegetarians generally find that 65 to 75% of vegetarians are female—in other words, two to three times as many women as men.

at one of these tables sat a young man.

We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She

Then I walked down the street toward Angel's Flight, wondering what I would do that day. But there was nothing to do, and so I decided to walk around the town.

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...

cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

As I went through the city by day I saw shadows in sunlight; But in the night I saw everywhere Stars within the darkness.

New York had taught me about hard stone, narrowness, and gray shadow.

He and Marie wandered through a square

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.

The same picket of urban cowboys met Troy at the lost junction of Cardigan Street and Waterloo Place. The same child's stare, suspicious of any adult, met his greeting to the boys.

Allie wondered why New Yorkers seemed to think that leaning on a horn might help clear a traffic jam. Many of them thrived on noise, she supposed. Maybe some people adapted to noise and then craved it.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Following a voice that sings only for his ears, the wolf steps from the cold emptiness of a dead world into the bustling street of one that is merely dying fast.