Cities Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Get better Greater Inspirational Love Relaxation Resting and relaxation Sleep
He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
