Quotes About The Concrete Jungle

#1. Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

Adrian Frutiger

#2. When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

Alicia Keys

#3. In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.

Belinda Jones

#4. Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.

Daniel Handler

#5. Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us
physicians, patients, and communities
to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

David Satcher

#6. People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

Billy Joel

#7. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Desmond Morris

#8. But there was no sign of the bomb in the market. Like all other tragedies, it had been covered up; the market had gone into a huddle of concrete and commerce around the blast, paving over the scars like a jungle coming back over a burnt field

Karan Mahajan

#9. Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Jennifer Stone

#10. I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I
have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every
day.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.

Daniel Humm

#12. A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen

#13. He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

Sri Chinmoy

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

Chris Hayes

#15. Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

#17. Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Eduardo Paes

#18. No chains around my feet, But I'm not free..

Bob Marley

#19. A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#20. I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers.

Nicole Gulla

#21. Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

Eduardo Paes