Urban Quotes

“The city is my mother. She's my lover, my enemy, my brother.”

“The gas-lamps gleam; the ragged skies are grey; / A rainy wind is blowing up the street.”

“Hot town, summer in the city. Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty.”

“Public transport is the lifeblood of a city.”

“It is a city of conspicuous smoke-stacks, factory towers and church spires, a city of handsome streets and rancid slums, a city of glittering department stores and scabby back-street markets.”

“The sky is a street.”

“How weary I am of this London street, / This London life, this London weary life.”

“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.”

“A smell of petrol in the street, a smell of rotting cabbage.”

“The urban guerrilla can concretize the international class struggle and make it a reality for the masses in the metropoles.”

“The city is a focal point of modern civilization.”

“The pigeons listening to the clock, the clock striking.”

“La calle es una selva de cemento.”

“We are calling for a guerrilla-type warfare in all the cities.”

“And so we have the result that the vast majority of our great cities are in a state of insoluble financial embarrassment.”

“The city is a great book.”

“There is an awful Rabble in this city.”

“The city is a sculpture.”

“Of all the things that I have known, only the city has been unending.”