Quotes About Urban Living

#1. The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

Stewart Udall

#2. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!

J.L. Sheppard

#3. Thing about witches; we're a paranoid lot. Call it a side effect of living in a world obsessed with seeing you burn.

Laura Oliva

#4. Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Jess C. Scott

#5. Living is deeper than just life

Tru Lyfe

#6. I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.

Amanda Carlson

#7. Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

Daniel Berrigan

#8. Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

Li Keqiang

#9. It's hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who's a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.

Shannon Mullen

#10. Of all the strange events in my life, that was by far the weirdest I'd had in hours.

Darynda Jones

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

Dani Shapiro

#12. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastiao Salgado

#13. 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

#14. Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Eileen Myles

#15. I'm living the life of an urban hunter-gatherer - again.

Donald O'Donovan

#16. Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Uta Hagen

#18. We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Christians should be well versed in what the Bible has to say about human sexuality and economic issues as well as effective methods of compassion for helping the poor and most vulnerable if we hope to gain a hearing with those living in our urban areas.

Christopher W. Brooks

#20. 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

#21. Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.

Kevin Hearne

#22. Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing.

Sapphire.

#23. Right now. Living. Aiming to misbehave or just trying not to fade away.

Michael R. Underwood

#24. Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

Peter Diamandis

#25. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Conan O'Brien

#26. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Isaac Asimov

#27. The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception.

Debasish Mridha

#28. 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

#29. Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger ...

Marvin Hagler