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Quotes About Urban

My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.
~ Blake Shelton
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
~ Buzz Aldrin
'Chewing Gum' is the London that I know.
~ Michaela Coel
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
~ Jim Harrison
I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.
~ Laila Rouass
People used to shoot their guns while I was MCing.
~ Dizzee Rascal
The feeling of the early '90s... I think it was more... It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining.
~ Shameik Moore
Aberdeen, a city in the northern reaches of HSBC-London. Their
~ Gary Shteyngart
The night was warm and windy, a perfect Manhattan I-don't-want-to-die kind of night
~ Gary Shteyngart
This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.
~ Gary Shteyngart
They drove to a mall in a former industrial building called Ponce City Market, which was like Chelsea Market in New York, only it was in Atlanta. They climbed up the elevated tracks to a new park called the BeltLine, which was just like the High Line in New York, only it was also in Atlanta.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.
~ Gary Snyder
Il movimento bioregionale non è solamente un programma rurale: vale anche come progetto di restaurazione della vita nei quartieri delle città e del loro ritorno ad essere più verdi.
~ Gary Snyder
Like just about everything else conjured up in the past century, the underground subway system of the modern city is an unfathomable engineering miracle covered in several inches of filth, urine, and spray paint. Despite being a certified member of the human race, I'll never fully understand why miracles of this magnitude are treated so casually.
~ Gene Doucette
Human ideology is the result: a tabloid concoction of religious conviction, political idealism, urban myth, tribal myth, wishful thinking, memorable anecdote, and pseudo-science.
~ Geoffrey Miller
A metrópole é a sede desta cultura, que eliminou todas as características da pessoa
~ Georg Simmel
If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parenthood, look at BET, which is owned by very wealthy white Democrats.
~ Burgess Owens
The subway is best to take when I have to meet someone. With just 1,300 won, I can go anywhere in Seoul!
~ Park Bo-gum
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.
~ Teju Cole
Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.
~ Santiago Calatrava
On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.
~ George Takei
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in just a few blocks. It was a whole world in one city.
~ Frances Arnold
South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.
~ Russell Crowe