Urban Communities Quotes

#1. Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

Chuck Grassley

#2. Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Leon Krier

#3. Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

Allan Jacobs

#4. I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure.. like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

Magic Johnson

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

Jamie Hector

#6. I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

Warren G

#7. Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Porter

#8. For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them ... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.

Peter Singer

#9. San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Gavin Newsom

#10. 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

#11. Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

Margaret Beckett

#12. Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

Jayme K.

#13. Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

Wendy Kopp

#14. As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

Fay Wray

#15. There are men who love out-of-doors who yet never open a book; and other men who love books but to whom . . . nature is a sealed volume. . . . Nevertheless among those men whom I have known the love of books and the love of the outdoors, in their highest expressions, have usually gone hand in hand.

Nick Offerman

#16. By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Socrates

#17. Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.

Nathan Winograd

#18. I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.

Victoria Pratt

#19. Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#20. Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Ban Ki-moon

#21. 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.

Mark Shields