Lewis Mumford Quotes

One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.

Lewis Mumford

• Men
• Together
• Peace
• City
• Hand
• Moments
• Solitude
• Maturity

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• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Literally
  • Oscar

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Joy

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Good
  • Friends

• Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Together
  • You
  • Star

• From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man

  

  Bette Midler
  • World
  • Men
  • Hope

• That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Waiting

• One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Men
  • Together
  • Peace