Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,'

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

David Nicholls

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

Andy Goldsworthy

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Doug Larson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Don DeLillo

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

Don Kelly

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

Don Kardong

So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans...

Dylan Thomas

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Henry Hazlitt

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

John Adams

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Bhagavad Gita

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies

Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed

Christopher Dodd

Earth Day is an occasion to reflect on what we can do to make our fragile world a cleaner, healthier, safer place to live.

David Schwartz

A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.

Don Winslow

And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you’re safe.