Quotes about Urban

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word 'urban' but - when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who's launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Cities remind us that the desire to escape from the problems of other people by fleeing to a suburb, small town, or a monastery, for that matter, is an unholy thing, and ultimately self-defeating. We can no more escape from other people than we can escape from ourselves.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.