Urban Places Quotes

#1. People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Andy Goldsworthy

#2. We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

Moshe Safdie

#3. The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.

Jonas Armstrong

#4. Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.

R.L. Stoll

#5. Everybody's got a true home - maybe not where they're living, but
where their heart lives.

Charles De Lint

#6. The places where poor children face the worst odds include some - but not all - of the nation's largest urban areas, like Atlanta; Chicago; Los Angeles; Milwaukee; Orlando, West Palm Beach and Tampa in Florida; Austin, Tex.; the Bronx; and the parts of Manhattan with low-income neighborhoods.

Anonymous

#7. London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

#8. If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.

Frederick Lenz

#9. There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.

Zach Johnson

#10. We're all looking for something, something to be.

Rob Thomas

#11. We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.

David Owen

#12. Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

Ruskin Bond

#13. I prefer statues silent, rather than of ears with tongues sticking out and licking out loudly.

Jarod Kintz

#14. I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.

Ving Rhames

#15. Brave men are brave from the very first.

Pierre Corneille

#16. The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Plutarch

#17. Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Alex Steffen

#18. More bungalow-type setups. Rent by the week. Artsy places," Zane
explained. "It's different."
"Do I look like an artsy type to you?" Ty asked, bristling on principle.
It didn't even faze Zane. "You look like sex on legs to me. You'll
blend in, no problem.

Madeleine Urban

#19. It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

#20. Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the corner? We set up a Freedom School that was fashioned after the SNCC Freedom Schools in Mississippi and other places.

Junius Williams