80s Quote by Moby

Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.…

— Kim Harrison

I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks,…

— Andrew Sullivan

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

— Taraka Larson

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless…

— Richard M. Nixon

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

— John Updike

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

— Nikita Khrushchev

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact…

— Jane Jacobs