Quotes About Metropolitan

Americans who live in metropolitan areas with more than a million residents are, on average, more than 50 percent more productive than Americans who live in smaller metropolitan areas. These relationships are the same even when we take into account the education, experience, and industry of workers. They're even the same if we take individual workers' IQs into account. The income gap between urban and rural areas is just as large in other rich countries, and even

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though

By the beginning of August, a rumor was flying that Chatham Phenix was not going to develop the site, as originally planned, but had found prospective developers who would. The link between the site and the developers was the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which had made the loan to Brown. As a Met Life board member, Al Smith had been intimate with the details of the loan to Brown and recognized the desirability of the property

At a national level, the study found that thanks to Wal-Mart the total earnings of retail workers declined by $4.5 billion, with most of these losses concentrated in metropolitan areas.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

Montreal had a metropolitan population of over 400,000 in January of 1907. It was Canada's biggest, richest, and most important city. Kenora, with a population of about 6,000 people, was, and will likely forever be, the smallest city ever to win the Stanley Cup.

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

Who made the 999 call?" "Dunno," said Purdy. "Mobile, probably." It's officers like Purdy that give the Metropolitan Police its sterling reputation for customer service that makes us the envy of the civilised world.

Prophecy," said Alastair. "We saw the future." Both me and Guleed were actually struck dumb—which is not a good look in a pair of experienced police officers. Fortunately, Alastair was off with the fairies and so didn't notice, and thus was the much vaunted mystique of the Metropolitan Police preserved.

MUCH AS I love the Jag, it's too conspicuous for everyday police work. So that day I was driving a battered silver ex–Metropolitan Police Ford Asbo that, despite my best efforts, smelled vaguely of old stakeouts and wet dog. I

It's not my future, but it's NASCAR's future, to make sure that we take events to the biggest metropolitan areas of the country, regions of the country.

Life in Dehradun is far more relaxing and pleasant than life in Mumbai.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

its contemporary metropolitan setting, its self-conscious 'coolness', its underlying preoccupation with the surface appearance of things and an accompanying cynicism and bleakness as audiences witnessed the machinations of its characters. Yet

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.

at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic

This is not mere sentimentality. The triumph of twentieth-century metropolitan life is, in a real sense, the triumph of one image over the other: the dark ritual of deadly epidemics replaced by the convivial exchanges of strangers from different backgrounds sharing ideas on the sidewalk.