Urbanite Quotes

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

I'm a city boy.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

I might just not be a big-city bug.

I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

I am a city girl I think, at heart.

I'm definitely a city kid.

I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

I kind of always get described as this, like, 'nature girl'... I've lived in New York for the last five years.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.