Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

Terence McKenna

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

Peter Fonda

Civilization has always been a bust.

Phylicia Rashad

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

Josiah Strong

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,

Josiah Strong

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Kelly Miller

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.

Kathleen Sebelius

As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

Radhanath Swami

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

John Sandford

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Mort Walker

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

Mason Cooley

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Liv Ullmann

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

Kenneth Graham

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today-in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped-always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

Chris Henderson

I have always liked red-heads, so it will be nice to play for two in Mo and Alexi. But seriously, I played with Mo in Kansas City and we won a championship together so I know what he is like. I am just really happy to play for an organization that is focused on winning championships. It's going to be a great situation for my family and I. I am very excited about playing in one of the greatest cities in the world.

Estella Warren

I like to go out and see what a city's all about.

Cassandra Clare

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Gary Oldman

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven