Dwellers Quotes

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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision… — James Buchan
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you:… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie â€“ or the gods, for that matterâ€¦Better a life like a falling star, bright across the… — Poul Anderson
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to… — Margaret Mead
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a… — Walter Bagehot
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside… — Jared Diamond
Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then… — Maura O'Halloran
There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles, but are within… — Walter Russell
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms… — Willard Fiske
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to… — Sam Ewing
The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path… — Robert Moss
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the… — Mahatma Gandhi
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the… — Ambrose Bierce
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the… — Joseph C. Lincoln
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it.… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's… — J. G. Ballard
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in… — Bill Mollison

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