Urban Quotes

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.

I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

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.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the communities you serve.

I love clothes! Ill wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.

I am passionate about a few things, of course acting, films/TV and improving the lives of youth in urban communities.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.