84 Quotes About Urban

Urban is a place where people go to escape. It’s a place where dreams can come true—if you’re willing to work for them. So whether you want to make it over the city’s many hurdles or simply enjoy a day in the park, these urban quotes will help you persevere and find happiness in the hustle and bustle of life.

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Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. . Roman Payne
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A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificial And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but There's not where it settles Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle And now we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In our steampunk nation Our steampunk nation . Criss Jami
Follow your heart, Ithilnin,
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Follow your heart, Ithilnin, " Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. Jess C. Scott
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Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his eyes linger over me, stopping here and there in the most uncomfortable places, I know he isn’t really even seeing me as I am. The bloodshot eyes staring out of the alcohol-flushed face are seeing a girl, nearly of age, who owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.-- Rocky Evans. Gwenn Wright
Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we...
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Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings. Amit Kalantri
I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a...
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I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades. Brandi L. Bates
This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous...
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This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective. Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules. Juliana Barbassa
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This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. Roman Payne
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Great artists need great clients. I.M. Pei
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. I.M. Pei
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But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. John Dos Passos
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I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve! Latif Mercado
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Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath! Latif Mercado
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You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb Latif Mercado
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You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind! Latif Mercado
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It's Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle! Latif Mercado
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You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home! Latif Mercado
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You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful! Latif Mercado
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To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey! Latif Mercado
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Never Let The Roosters Wake You! Latif Mercado
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My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget! Latif Mercado
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My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic! Latif Mercado
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Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success! Latif Mercado
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A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second. Latif Mercado
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Don't Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time! Latif Mercado
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Attitude Is More Important Than Talent! Latif Mercado
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Attitude Is More Important Than Talent Latif Mercado
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How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows–this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present . Robert Walser
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She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex's ground floor. The scene was a swirl of candy bright lights--the Victoria's Secret fuchsia signboard, signboards which lured one to purchase "confidence, " or "sexual appeal, " or whatever it was that was being advertised--the fluorescent lights in each store, contrasting with the shiny, black-tiled walls and eye-catching speckled marble tiles on the ground. One could lick the floor--the tiles were spotless, clean like the fake air she was breathing in, like the atoms and cells in her that were decaying in stale neglect. Jess C. Scott
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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. Nelson Algren
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I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.‘ You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s wrong. He’s wrong! ’ Vanian pleaded, I could feel the quiver of his magic, the wisps that were fighting against the iron burning into his wrists, I could feel the crackle as it fought in the air, against his emotions, against his pain. I shook my head, was about to speak but Adam grabbed him by the front of his shirt; as if a few more tears and shreds couldn’t go amiss. The tightness of his grip paled the Faerie’s cheeks, caused the blood to trickle down faster, dropping to the floor.‘ My wife.’ He yelled, ‘She’s my wife, silverblood.’ With each growl of a syllable he accented it with a punch to Vanian’s face. I couldn’t take much more. I jumped over and pulled at Adam’s shoulders, fingertips driving into the nook of his collarbone, pressing down with as much as I had in me, anything to break his hold. He recoiled and rose his hand to me, at first I flinched but I stopped. He wouldn’t hurt me. He wouldn’t. . Charlotte Munro
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Staying relaxed was helping him cope with the drug induced juddering vision that could be best described as being like a Hitchcockian visual effect operated by a hyperactive squirrel that shook the whole universe closer and farther away. If you went with it, it was quite pleasant, as long as you didn't introduce any lateral movement like turning your head or the car. This caused the universe to try and slide away from underneath you. The other side effect was the constant feeling you ought to try to twist your head off, in a good way. . Dylan Perry
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What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock! Ana Claudia Antunes
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The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful. Fennel Hudson
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A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure. Amit Kalantri
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Dream It, Believe In It, And Achieve It. Black Barbie
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C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the moment came to act upon these convictions, he discovered that his knowledge of self was faulty. Had his lack of killer instinct been a momentary lapse, first time jitters? Or was there more to it than that? If not the fearless, remorseless man he supposed himself to be, then just who was he?. Unknown
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Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society. I.M. Pei
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What did the mat say to the door? You must be really a D O O Rable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me Ana Claudia Antunes
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It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet. Gena Showalter
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What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores! ? SupaNova Slom
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You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. Erol Ozan
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…So, um, you’re from Rochester? Like, New York?” Jersey asked.“ Yup, we used to live out there, ” Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. “You ever been?”“ Naw, the closest I’ve ever been to there would be… well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime… I loved it. Rebecca McNutt
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The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It’s a small one, only about four feet tall: a low-level creeper. I flick my gaze over the spot like I don’t see it and open the cooler door to get a Coke. Rachel A. Marks
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They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny apartment above the old hardware store and done what little he knew to take care of me. It took less than six weeks for him to realize his mistake. Maybe even less than six hours, but he never abandoned me. He clung to me as though I was the last remnant of some great and powerful love. And that gave me hope that maybe my mother was really something else and not just some girl who got knocked up by a guy whose name she didn’t even know. She was something special, someone worthy of a man’s loyalty and devotion.-- Rocky Evans . Gwenn Wright
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She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes. Emmanuelle De Maupassant
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The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction. Emmanuelle De Maupassant
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Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it. Robert Dunbar
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A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet streaks and spatters on her jade-green polished toenails and pale, slender ankles. Another step took him around the hunched and twitching figure. It ignored him, intent on its work. Then its victim came fully into view … and he saw her ruined face. Scott Kaelen
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She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d' Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness. Jennifer Donnelly
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Chamari: "Aravinda, have you been to Kataragama?"Aravinda: "No, I've never been there." Chamari: "What? That's unbelievable for someone born in Deniyaya! "Aravinda: "Going to Kataragama is not a custom of the rural folk. It is the middle class and wealthy urban people, not the villagers, who venerate the Kataragama god. He is the god of the urbanities. The villagers have now started to imitate the urban people." Chamari:" I thought even villagers used to go to Kataragama long ago." Aravinda: "No, It came from the rich urban Sinhalese of the towns who followed the rich Hindus. . Unknown
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When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman to take care of you like this." Dig this! All I'm goin' do is rest and dress, buy gasoline and lean. I'm goin' buy diamond rings and have the best of everything. I'm goin' pimp whores. Donald Goines
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A Memory Is Better Than A Phony! Latif Mercado
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The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. Charles E. Rosenberg
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Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator. J.G. Ballard
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She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure. Jennifer Donnelly
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Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. Jennifer Donnelly
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Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. I.M. Pei
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I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.” …Anias Nin Angelic Artiaga
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I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. Jeanette Winterson
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Tony's concern disintegrated. He could not understand C.J.'s determination to court death on a daily basis. Or maybe he did understand, and this was what caused his frustration. So many found the same solution his brother had. Selling death to their own people. The money was a difficult lure to resist. Additionally, the fear elicited from their hard core posturing proved nearly as addictive. They demanded to be heard, even though it didn't seem they had much to say. Perhaps the futility and smallness that characterized their lives was too overwhelming to articulate in any manner other than a primitive, incoherent scream. Maybe it was inevitable that those who felt they had no stake in society would opt to destroy it. . Unknown
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She stared at the bullwhip coiled Indiana Jones-style at his narrow waist, then at the black-handled dagger sheathed on his right hip. An obsidian rapier-- Fae-forged and unbreakable--almost merged with one of the taped seams that ran down the sides of his pants. He even wore a dagger gunslinger-style at his hip. Dear Goddess, the man was a walking arsenal, but he was sexy as hell. Kryssie Fortune
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All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities" would have looked hopelessly naive in New York. Sylvia wanted to be hard and urban. Elizabeth Winder
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He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet. Michael Montoure
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The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel. Michael Montoure
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Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. David Goodis
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All women should feel as Sex Subjects if they want and choose so without fear of repressions, condemnations and put down and without the need to pay them for that. Being freely a sexy and seductive woman is allowed only for few privileged professions: actresses, dancers, models, singers, prostitutes. They all do it for work. You can pay for them being sexy. If a sexy woman is openly adored by a man, the woman remains as a woman, she is not turning into a table, a cup or a bill of money. She is still the Subject who knows her power. Mai Loog
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Moses threw the spent cigarette butt to the ground. It bounced once then lay still. A lazy wisp of smoke drifted towards the reaching shadows. He pushed himself to his feet and brushed flakes of grit from the seat of his jeans. Stuffing his hands in his pockets, he moved away from the pipe and began to negotiate a route down the alley. A rivulet of cans, wrappers and remnants of kebabs dotted the ground like flotsam; the waste of nights past, discarded by the nameless, faceless masses marking their territories with futile gestures. Oh, sure, the trash was still emptied these days — there were still garbage men around, but it just delayed the inevitable, prolonging the agony of a tired and dying world. . Scott Kaelen
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. Teju Cole
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Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence? Tom McDonough
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract. I.M. Pei
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Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. I.M. Pei
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Let's do it right. This is for the ages. I.M. Pei
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You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for. I.M. Pei
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It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious. A.M. Homes
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A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time Patrick Geddes
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Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days’ time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves. Isa Kamari
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For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics. Isa Kamari
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An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation Enrique Penalosa
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For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are whithered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets. And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine; And death stalks in on the struggling crowd– But he shuns the shadow of the oak and pine George Washington Sears
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The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments Unknown
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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