Concrete Jungle Quotes

• Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

  Michael Dolan

  Powerful, Peaceful, Solitude

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• No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.

  Bob Marley

  Feet, Chains

  Song: Concrete Jungle

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• Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

  Bette Davis

  Children, Believe, Home

  "The Added Dimension: Celebrating the Opportunities, Rewards, and Challenges of the Add Experience". Book by Kate Kelly, p. 128, July 23, 1998.

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• Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

  Arna Bontemps

  Dance, Dream, Father

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• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Children, Parenting

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• The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

  Desmond Morris

  Funny, Zoos, Cities

  The Human Zoo (1969) p. 8

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• A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

  Herb Caen

  Crazy, Odds, Cities

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• I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

  Barry Goldwater

  Loss, Thinking, Space

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• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  Alicia Keys

  New York, Kids, Piano

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I don't like concrete jungles.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Concrete, Jungle

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