Urban Areas Quotes:

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Writing, Native American, Ironic, Ironic Things, American Writer

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

- Ken Salazar

topic: Colorado, Rural Areas, Urban, Scourge, Urban Areas

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

- Bob Filner

topic: California, Statistics, Might, Mislead, Gang Violence

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

- Dave Reichert

topic: Offering, Years, America, Gang Violence, Metropolitan

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

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Data, Class, Ideas, Urban Areas

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

- Majora Carter

topic: People, May, Want, Policy Makers, Urban Areas

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.

- Tilman J Fertitta

topic: Average, Steak House, Water, Seafood, Urban Areas

Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.

- Anita Rau Badami

source: Source: www.bookbrowse.com

topic: Christian, Thinking, Space, Brahmins, Urban Areas

This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.

- Narendra Modi

topic: India, Needs, Pace, Days To Come, Virtual World

I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.

- Chris Christie

source: "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

topic: Taken, School, Opportunity, Urban Areas

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

- Jose Serrano

topic: Country, New York, Fighting, Municipality, Fighting Terrorism

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Children, School, Cities, Inner City, Inner City Schools

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

- Jeremy Lin

topic: Kids, Want, Degrees, Underprivileged, Urban Areas

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

topic: People, African American, Want, Urban Areas

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

- Ron Wyden

topic: Government, Leaving, Rural Areas, Reimbursement, Urban Areas

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

- Van Jones

topic: People, Community, Village, Farmers Markets, Urban Areas

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

- Minoru Mori

topic: Cities, Environmental, Density, Population Density, Environmental Damage

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

- Bunker Roy

topic: Self Confidence, Opportunity, People, Rural Areas, Slums

If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Country, Being Ignored, Looks, Urban Areas

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: New York, Sex, Squares, Suburbs, Orderliness

In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.

- Arthur Frommer

topic: America, Mind, Uniforms, Revitalization, Sections

Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.

- Silas House

topic: Country, Want, Poverty, Appalachia, Urban Areas

The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

- Michael Porter

topic: Crush, Jobs, Self, Drug Abuse, Cycle Of Poverty

Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.

- Frank Sartor

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Talking, Land, Community, Urban Areas

Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Giving Up, Moving, Uprising, Urban Areas

In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives. It is viewed as "normal" in ghetto communities to go to prison or jail.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Ghetto, Men, Jail, Urban Areas

I'm very humbled by the fact that grassroots efforts are rising up all over the country, but particularly in my home state of Ohio. I barely have words. To know that so many people across the state, from the rural areas to the urban areas, see something in my leadership and really believe I am someone for the people means a lot to me. That's how I want people to see me and my public service.

- Nina Turner

topic: Country, Believe, Home, Grassroots, Urban Areas

Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.

- Timothy Shriver

source: Source: abilitymagazine.com

topic: Kids, Skills, People, Intellectual Disability, Urban Areas

Walls are very important when you`re separating two urban areas where if you`re actually able to get over the border you can probably get into the underground network in about 30 seconds. But when you`re out in the middle of the desert, it makes no sense because you have border security people have up to a day to apprehend people who are crossing illegally.

- John Yarmuth

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Wall, Two, People, Border Security, Urban Areas

Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

- David Simon

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Race, Different, Culture, Culture And Religion, Urban Areas

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

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Thinking, Feet, Yesterday, Urban Areas

I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Children, Recovery, Thinking, Urban Areas

North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: North Carolina, Triangles, Urban, Salem, High Points

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

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Country, Thinking, Needs, Broadband, Rural Areas

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

- Manmohan Singh

source: "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

topic: Numbers, Order, Law, Rural Areas, Law And Order

And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have on violence.

- Chris Christie

source: "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, August 28, 2016.

topic: Country, Teacher, Giving, Teachers Unions, Urban Areas

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

- Devra Davis

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Cancer, Phones, People, Rural Areas, Brain Cancer