Harvey Milk Quotes

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

Harvey Milk

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• I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • New York
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Blue
  • Media
  • Cities

• We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Cities
  • States

• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Together
  • Future
  • Girl

• If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

  

  Oleg Romanishin
  • Interesting
  • Light
  • City

• New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • True
  • City

• Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • Country
  • Soul

• I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Long
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!

  

  Kabir
  • House
  • City
  • Water

• In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  

  Vance Palmer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.

  

  John Reed
  • Cities
  • Customers
  • Attractive

• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Simple
  • Young
  • Paris

• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Cities
  • Fine
  • Hills

• Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Cities

• I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Bike
  • Neighborhoods
  • Exercising

• Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Enough
  • Cities
  • Aim

• The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Working
  • Wealth
  • Taxes

• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Poverty
  • Discrimination

• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Genius
  • Playing
  • Lefthanded

• I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.

  

  Adam Cole
  • Way
  • Battle
  • Reaction

• If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Cities
  • Neighborhoods