Quotes about Urban life

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If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be con — Ana Claudia Antunes, ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to fin — Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock! — Ana Claudia Antunes, ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did w — Choire Sicha, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
The urban capitalists and the bourgeoisie differ in linguistic habits and dress from the workers. They don't live togeth — මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ, Yuganthaya
With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to — William Golding
I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell. — J.A. Willoughby, ENCORE
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. — Erol Ozan
The few people who work earnestly are those who want to accumulate wealth. They are born with exceptional ability and a — මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ, Yuganthaya
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, The Bread Line A Story of a Paper
The poor commit villainies because they are poor or because they have no alternative employment. But the rich do them in — මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ, Yuganthaya
From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of ear — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end” — Haki R. Madhubuti
I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't believe in god have t — Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy, Roscoe
He should make you smile...always...and when he makes you cry it should be out of passion! ‪ — Brooklyn June, Money Can't Buy Love
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had. — Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me. — Nicholas Kaufmann, Die and Stay Dead
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates
In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhood — Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America