Top 100 Quotes About Urban Life
#1. I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.
Peter Milligan
#2. Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.
Carole Katchen
#3. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton
#4. Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
Dave Reichert
#6. A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.
Richard Rogers
#7. Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
Virginia Postrel
#8. Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#9. Broad Street marked the first time in history when a reasonable person might have surveyed the state of urban life and come to the conclusion that cities would someday become great conquerers of disease. Until then, it looked like a losing battle all the way.
Steven Johnson
#10. The search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#11. There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.
Dani Shapiro
#12. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.
Chris Cannon
#13. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.
Kyle Richardson
#14. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#15. He's lighting up my life and I don't even know his name. He's already perfect.
Poppet
#16. Hiking is like life...
You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.
And then you miss all this.
Susannah Scott
#17. This is worth an eternity of torture," he whispered. "I'm quite certain I love you more than anyone I've ever loved, in any life. I may have lost my soul when I was turned, but it's been replaced by you, Cassandra. I'll never let you go.
L.J. Kentowski
#19. I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!
Latif Mercado
#20. I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.
J.A. Willoughby
#21. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#22. I'm sorry," I whispered. "I never wanted this for you. This life ... I knew it was going to kill me in the end. I wish you didn't have to be here when it finally caught up.
Julie Kagawa
#23. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#24. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
Isaac Asimov
#25. The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
Charles E. Rosenberg
#26. New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.
Charles Emmerson
#27. You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood.
Raphael Sinclair
Helen Maryles Shankman
#28. Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
Chuck Grassley
#29. Father Gregory laid a hand on his shoulder. "Sometimes life knocks us to our knees." His hand tightened briefly. "But that's a damn good position to pray from.
Laura Oliva
#30. From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.
Bao Shu
#31. In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#32. I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.
Donna Augustine
#33. Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.
Russell Baker
#34. My life had indeed become meaningless to me. Even lack of sleep was not a concern for me; only hunger remained a sensation worthy of articulation. Once that hunger was assuaged, I would return to my inert state.
Ashokamitran
#35. One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.
Karl Urban
#37. By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
#38. And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.
Michael Ondaatje
#39. It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you ... they must happen, Heather. They have to.
Elizabeth Morgan
#40. The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.
Fennel Hudson
#41. You did promise me it'd be the best date of my life...."
She smiled up at him. "Well, a promise is a promise. And I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Paige Tyler
#42. Brennan's inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled.
Zoe Chant
#44. Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb
#45. Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go ... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.
Stephen Holden
#46. You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.
Keith Urban
#47. I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.
Kamila Shamsie
#48. My body felt heavy. It grew harder to thrash around, to move at all. I opened my mouth to scream again but no sound came from my blood-soaked lips. My eyelids fluttered closed and the world disappeared around me as I took the last few breath of my life.
Allison Sipe
#49. I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.
Sheridan Hay
#50. LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY ... SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY ...
Muffin
#51. The nice thing about crowds is that someone can throw a bottle and you don't take it personally.
David Sedaris
#52. I thought of the three men in the meadow. None were what they seemed and I was in the arms of my worst enemy, taking comfort from him. Would my life ever be normal?
"Normal is boring," Mace said.
H.D. Smith
#53. You're telling me a shape-shifting demon just walked out onto Fifth Avenue and blended in with the crowd?" I asked. "Hailed a fucking cab after tearing everyone to pieces down here?
Nicholas Kaufmann
#55. The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
Betty Smith
#56. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
Albert Bigelow Paine
#57. Life was not always so peaceful and rewarding at NAPA (the office). Sometime during 1968, I cam back to the office and found the plate glass window shattered. I asked Ab what happened, and he strangely knew nothing.
Junius Williams
#58. The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.
Anna Quindlen
#59. Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
Yves Behar
#60. I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.
Gordon Lish
#61. Life is about holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#62. I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
Armand Assante
#63. Keep The Drama In Your Books, Not Your Life." - The Cartel Publications.
T. Styles
#65. This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane.
Denise Grover Swank
#66. Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.
Sheridan Hay
#67. A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.
Latif Mercado
#68. At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.
But that time was pretty much in the past.
Jim Butcher
#69. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#70. There were a few nighttime pedestrians on the block, but they continued on their way, dutifully ignoring the zombie vomiting blood out of the back of my car. Good old New Yorkers. They really couldn't care less.
Nicholas Kaufmann
#71. Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.
Esther Meynell
#72. Holding my hands in his, David kissed my knuckles before he swore to me, I will love every day of the rest of my life.
Theresa M. Jones
#73. I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.
Per Petterson
#74. We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
Adolph Green
#76. The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.
Marcia Muller
#77. My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#78. I never thought my life would end like this. Being hunted by mythological creatures in my pajamas. Honestly, it never entered my mind.
Amanda Carlson
#79. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
Meg Jay
#80. Tis the unexpected that makes life interesting.
Ashlyn Chase
#81. It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.
Brandy Nacole
#82. Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
Alan Dundes
#83. What I didn't expect to see was Alex, wearing nothing but a tight pair of black boxer briefs and a red velvet bow around his neck. I swear I almost swooned. I definitely drooled.
"Oh my God. I'm scarred for life. I'll never be able to unsee that." Jake slapped his hands over his eyes ...
Suzanne Johnson
#84. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.
Charles Emmerson
#85. 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
#86. I want to mate with you more than my next breath, but I need you to be sure." His eyes were human again as he continued. "Dragon matings are for life. I... don't ever want you to regret mating with me. Even if every second that you are not mine is torture.
Katie Reus
#88. 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.
Saul Perlmutter
#89. The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.
Tana French
#90. Upon learning of Cardinal Richelieu's death, Pope Urban VIII is alleged to have said, If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not ... well, he had a successful life.
Henry Kissinger
#91. I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.
Danila Botha
#92. You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
Keith Urban
#93. I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
Erik Hersman
#94. I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
Richelle Mead
#95. Me too, Arch," Jeremiah said. "I want an answer about my request to transfer. Even now, my balls are shrinking in anticipation of going back out in the cold. I said I'd give my life protecting humanity, but my balls were never in the bargain.
Rose Wynters
#96. For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
Amity Gaige
#97. It's evil, Jo. It exists in all forms of life and death.
Brandy Nacole
#98. One downside of living with a Were-cheetah is that he purrs when he's happy. At times, the apartment vibrated
all day from MeShack's enjoyment of life.
Kenya Wright
#99. A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.
Keith Urban
#100. He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.
Donna Augustine
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