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

• 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

• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Cities
  • Century
  • Houston

• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • President
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Moving

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

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Cities
  • Neighborhoods