Lewis Mumford Quotes

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Lewis Mumford

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• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Stop

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Age
  • Man

• Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • You
  • Politics

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Money
  • Age
  • Fashion

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Like

• My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • She
  • Age
  • Mom

• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Great
  • Age
  • Soul

• People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'

  

  Brian Fallon
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Great
  • Women
  • She

• Nelson Mandela just died, so that says so much because it's a tremendously powerful and great man who was very sensitive. Loved all people, forgave his enemies, and showed the world how to stand up and do it the right way.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Age