"He who touches the soil of Manhattan and……" — Lewis Mumford

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New… - Lewis Mumford

"He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman."

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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford has 99 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a…
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider…
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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More Manhattan Quotes

This quote is filed under Manhattan Quotes, one of 211 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax. — Mario Batali
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would… — Michael Bloomberg
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little… — David Byrne
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it?… — Julian Casablancas
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which… — Dick Cheney
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a… — Stephen Fry
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. — Ethan Suplee
We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and… — Bob Cousy
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch… — Lise Meitner
I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just… — Big Noyd
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers… — Bobby Fischer

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