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344 Urban quotes by 296 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. — Denis Leary
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
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
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
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan
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
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
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan. — George Osborne
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect. — Michael Porter
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
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view. — Richard Rogers
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
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. — Will Self
'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
An urban novelist never minds a little decay. — Jane Smiley
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
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. — David Suzuki
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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