"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur | Giving | 5 bookmarks

"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern | Past | 3 bookmarks

"The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind."

Mumford, Lewis | Cities and City Life | 2 bookmarks

"Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture."

Raban, Jonathan | Cities and City Life | 1 bookmarks

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

Humphrey, Hubert H. | Cities and City Life | 1 bookmarks

"We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation."

Kennedy, John F. | Cities and City Life | 1 bookmarks

"The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know."

Mead, Margaret | Cities and City Life | 1 bookmarks

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

Mead, Margaret | Cities and City Life | 1 bookmarks

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."

Burroughs, William S. | Arts and Artists | 3 bookmarks