Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything… — Feist Copy Share Image
Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the… — Warren Hoge Copy Share Image
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income… — Tom Armstrong Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. — Steve Chabot Copy Share Image
There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city… — Susette La Flesche Copy Share Image
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a… — George Halas Copy Share Image
Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this is… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image