Towns Quotes - Page 31

• Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

  Millard Fuller

  Thinking, Cities, Community

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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• My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Heart, Cities

  Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.

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• Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Country, Drinking

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• ...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Hype, White

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

  Sam Sifton

  Sports, Winter, Games

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• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Desert

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• In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
  In floating, curling sprays,
  The golden flower comes shining though the woods
  These February days;
  Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
  To bring her gayly in,
  This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
  The yellow jessamine.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

  Clare Benedict, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1930*). “Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson”

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• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Independent, Europe And America, Government

  Henry Morton Stanley (1873). “How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone”, p.12

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• It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

  Miriam Toews

  Grieving, Emptiness, Happens

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Twitter is a global town square.

  Dick Costolo

  Squares

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• In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

  Vinton Cerf

  People, Privacy, Knows

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• The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made
  may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner
  forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep
  us locked in inner conflict.

  Christopher Alexander

  Alive, May, Patterns

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Night, Different

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Night, Rainbow, Psychology

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

  Bruno Schulz

  Father, Night, Play

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• If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

  Aesop

  Thieves, Temples, Stealing

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• The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

  Bruce Catton

  Morning, Nice, Interesting

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• If you really want space on public transport you should carry some pornography from the 1970s and a pair of children's safety scissors, then delicately cut out all the eyes of the glamour models whilst whistling. Every now and again mutter, 'Why are women more beautiful when they are eyeless?' You will be able to stretch out, though this can have ramifications such as ending up on a police list or being run out of town.

  Robin Ince

  Beautiful, Running, Children

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• I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

  Alison Moyet

  School, Kids, Class

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• There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

  Tommy Shaw

  Guitar, Sides, Knows

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• Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

  Laura Miller

  Small Town

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• It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players

  Natalie

  Fun, School, Player

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• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Smell, Water, Silence

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• If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

  Larry Gelbart

  Musical, Alive, Stills

  Larry Gelbart (1998). “Laughing Matters: On Writing M-A-S-H, Tootsie, Oh, God!, and a Few Other Funny Things”, Random House Incorporated

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