Urban City Quotes: top 35 famous quotes about Urban City

Urban City Quotes & Sayings

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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. — S.J Perelman

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city. — Junius Williams

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. — Anna Quindlen

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. — David Harvey

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule. — Robert Silverberg

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. — Betty Smith

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. — David Goodis

An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it's where even the rich use public transportation — Enrique Penalosa

It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious. — A.M. Homes

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city. — Juan Enriquez

Let's do it right. This is for the ages. — I.M. Pei

Frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. — Jane Jacobs

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me. — Nicholas Kaufmann

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. — Erol Ozan

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit. — Sheridan Hay

Great artists need great clients. — I.M. Pei

But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. — John Dos Passos

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences. — Nelson Algren

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had. — Bill Bryson

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it. — Hannibal Buress

I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room. — Sheridan Hay

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. — Jeanette Winterson

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts. — Tom Turner

I mean, electric shock? Isn't that a bit ... electric shock-y? — Emmett Spain

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans. — Jane Jacobs

A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles. — David Detzer

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy

Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere. — Albert Bigelow Paine

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses. — Clinton Smith

Without the queen pulling your strings, you're nothing but thoughts and dreams. Such things are easily destroyed." ~ General Kael, City of Fae #2 — Pippa DaCosta

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. — John Jeremiah Sullivan