Cities Quote by Moss Hart Download Open image “New York is not a city to return to in defeat.” — Moss Hart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Defeat Failure New york Return
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable.… — Moss Hart 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 to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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 surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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 think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share
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. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
