Quotes about Urban
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
— Herman Melville
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
— Sonia Sotomayor
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
— Will Rogers
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