Urban Quotes - Page 11

• We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

  Van Jones

  Garden, Community, Fuel

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

  Uma Thurman

  Mother, Children, Friendly

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Iran, Oil

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Home, Mean, Sister In Law

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

  Jesse Jackson

  Order, Law, Needs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Feet, Yesterday

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, New Orleans

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• Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Agendas

  "The urbanization of Cuomo 2010" by Jimmy Vielkind, www.politico.com. October 27, 2010.

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• In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

  Nancy Pearcey

  Data, Class, Ideas

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

  Chuck Grassley

  Iowa, Airports, Community

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• By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, People, Accountability

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

  David Harvey

  Urbanization, Cities, Liberty

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Kings

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• The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.

  Henry Beston

  Country, Writing, Reality

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• URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  New York, Rights, Expression

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

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• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Bruce Sterling

  War, Clouds, Mushrooms

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• From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Garden, Water

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

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Living In The Country, Persons

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