“You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.” — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these… — Plato Copy Share Image
What are the urban life taken away from me, ask listen | fragrance of the soil in the rain, the rain water… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
“With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live… — William Golding Copy Share Image
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines;… — Elizabeth Wilson Copy Share Image
There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
“@K11, Urban farming; It’s something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is… — Baris Gencel Copy Share Image
“..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the American Constitution, well-versed in the classical heritage, consciously constructed an awkward governmental system like republican Rome's: much better… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“God is blessing the church in China with extraordinary growth. However, when Chinese churches and ministers who had experienced God’s blessing in… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Sixth, show a deep acquaintance with the same books, magazines, blogs, movies, and plays — as well as the daily life experiences… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while… — Choire Sicha Copy Share Image
“I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“It was indeed the transcendent force of modernization that accounts for the unparalleled strength of Know-Nothingism in Massachusetts. The political fallout from… — John R. Mulkern Copy Share Image
“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
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