45 Quotes About Urban-life

What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

The poor commit villainies because they are poor or because they have no alternative employment. But the rich do them in order to enjoy themselves more or to earn more money.

หิมะ!” มาร์โควัลโดตะโกนบอกเมีย ความจริงคือตั้งท่าจะตะโกน แต่เสียงดังออกมาแผ่ว ๆ หิมะตกใส่เสียง ไม่ใช่สิ ตกใส่ความเป็นไปได้ที่จะส่งเสียง เหมือนที่ตกใส่แนวเส้น สีสัน และทิวทัศน์ เสียงในบริเวณที่มีอะไรหุ้มจึงไม่สั่น

I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Every Friday evening since the late sixties, at 5:00 p.m. we'd walk into the nearby Brompton Cemetery, which, since its four corners connect Fulham, Chelsea, South Kensington, and Earl's Court, was a convenient meeting point for all our friends. We'd plan our weekend on the grave of Admiral Angus Whitewater. We didn't know the Admiral, he just happened to have an impressive horizontal slab of black marble over his last resting place, which made a great table for drinks.

B the spring of 1848, the religious climate was still unsettled and ripe for progressive new ideas. America's cities were expanding, its populations swelling with immigrants from Ireland and Europe, its factories and ports booming all of which contributed to a rising mortality rate.