Tenements Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the…
— John Quincy Adams
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on…
— Harpo Marx
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
— Harpo Marx
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Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that…
— Dwight L. Moody
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd…
— John Dryden
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Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but…
— Thomas Adams
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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…
— Adrian Frutiger
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Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of…
— John Cheever
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the…
— Claude McKay
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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in…
— Alice Hamilton
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When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
— Cy Coleman
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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway…
— Annie Lennox
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I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know…
— Martin Scorsese
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
— Paul Simon
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely…
— William Faulkner
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I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements,…
— Anne Rice
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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
— Isabel Allende
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through…
— Betty Smith
Who Wrote These Tenements Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Tenements Quotes as follows: