Urban Quotes - Page 2

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.

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

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

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

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.