Best Urban Proverbs
344 Urban quotes by 296 unique authors
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of…
— Jonathan Kozol
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
— Jonathan Kozol
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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
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We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center…
— Emeril Lagasse
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Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
— Denis Leary
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Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff…
— Amy Lee
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The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban…
— Jeremy Lin
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting…
— Judd Nelson
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
— George Osborne
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London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
— Renzo Piano
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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
— Michael Porter
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there...…
— Ezra Pound
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This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
— Richard Rogers
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban…
— Salman Rushdie
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Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
— Will Self
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'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night…
— Rob Sheffield
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An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
— Jane Smiley
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured…
— Jane Smiley
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Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
— David Suzuki
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I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
— Justin Timberlake
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