#urban

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #urban




Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding— a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted. There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and gnarled and unkillable: conspiracy theories and urban legends, the hooks embedded in popular songs, the comforting Easter-bunny lies of religious doctrine. These were the memes: viral concepts, infections of conscious thought. Some flared and died like mayflies. Others lasted a thousand years or more, tricked billions into the endless propagation of parasitic half-truths.


Peter Watts


#pith #religion #rumor-cycles #snark #urban-legends

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.


Dan Abrams


#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.


Jerry Falwell


#buy #conscience #global #global warming #going

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.


Ashley Judd


#i #me #more #often #people

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


#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

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


#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.


Jonathan Kozol


#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.


Jonathan Kozol


#children #commonplace #contain #each #higher

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.


John Warner


#areas #congestion #extra #funding #get

Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #suburban #urban #funny