Urban Quotes

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

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

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

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

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

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

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 patriarchal system.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something.

I'm not an urban person.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.