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.

Daniel Dennett

[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

David Simon

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

David Paul

Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.

David Lynch

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

David Harvey

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

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.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Marquis de Lafayette

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mikhail Bakunin

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.