Quotes about Urban
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
— Will Rogers
In Manchester, there are two restaurants, and everything's small. It rains all the time.
— Carlos Tevez
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
— GK Chesterton
Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.
— John Milton
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.
— Washington Irving
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
— Robert Brault
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald