Quotes About Progress

We have large resources of uranium that we are exploring, and we are extremely encouraged.

We are neither anti-urban nor pro-rural. We know there is a gap between urban and rural areas; we are only trying to bridge it.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only fit for rural characters with this role.

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.