Quotes About Urban

One does not call down archangels in my city, Detective, if one cares to go unnoticed.

She flitted from shadow to shadow, but he finally caught sight of her silhouetted against the lights in the eye-shattering cacophany of Times Square.

She wore no iron rings; the city itself pained her.

In 2002, scholars from the Ningxia Party School published the results of a survey among urban residents in Ningxia: roughly "25 percent did not believe in the cause of socialist construction any more, 50 percent doubted the CCP's role as vanguard of the working class . . . and 79 percent had lost their close emotional ties to the party.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

Instead, they divide the world up into "anthromes." There is an "urban" anthrome that stretches over five hundred thousand square miles, an "irrigated cropland" anthrome (a million square miles), and a "populated forest" (four and a half million square miles). Ellis and Ramankutty count a total of eighteen "anthromes," which together extend over thirty-nine million square miles.

This town is infested with squirrels, have you noticed?" "I'd rather say it's rich with squirrels.

I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

By 2200 B.C.E., five hundred years before Hammurabi issued his law code in Babylon, the civilization of the Indus Valley was a flourishing urban world of small brick houses and straight narrow streets, clean, efficient, and uniform, ruled by all-powerful theocrats whose temples were the very cities themselves.14

with commerce and industry had come literacy for Europe's new urban middle class.

Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.

In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.

Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies...I loved deserts, burned out orchards, faded boutiques...I dragged myself down stinking alleyways...General, if there's an old canon left, aim for the glass of splendid shops, into the living rooms...make the city eat its own dust.

a unas calles bajas de esta ciudad donde lo fastuoso de la urbe se entenebrece ante la sordidez de la vida de los más desfavorecidos, donde toda necesidad tiene su ejemplo y todo vicio su triste manifestación.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

The fashion and the rap go hand in hand with New York City.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.