Urban Quotes · Page 6

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

— Eric Kripke

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

— Will Self

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

— Annie Jacobsen

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

— Sxip Shirey

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

— Roelof Botha

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

— Enrique Peñalosa Londoño

“Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.”

— Bauvard

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but…

— David Brooks

I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any…

— Theaster Gates

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music,…

— Taio Cruz

It's only in acting where I've heard in auditions, 'Can you black it up a little bit? Can you make her a…

— Yvonne Orji

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an…

— Pat Buchanan

If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And…

— David L. Cohen

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan,…

— Collin Peterson

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was…

— Arundhati Roy

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some…

— Jesse Williams

You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to…

— Moby

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this…

— M.I.A

I used to hate the urban environment and the urban din. But I realize now that it's really not that much different…

— Gordon Hempton

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird…

— Frank N. Ikard

Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban…

— Brandon Massey

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small,…

— Steve Stoute

We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.

— Betsy DeVos

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

— Devra Davis

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

— Cathleen McGuigan

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

— Timothy Leary

One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn't want to be associated with that?

— Robin Chase

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

— Maxine Waters

I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

— Sophie McShera

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

— Denis Leary

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

— Richard Rogers

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are…

— Mary J. Blige

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

— T. S. Eliot

I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to…

— Chris Ofili

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to…

— Becky G

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

— Marshall McLuhan