John Norquist famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.
-- John Norquist

#Cities #Program #Devalue
Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.
-- John Norquist

#Europe #Cities #America
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.
-- John Norquist

#Cities #People #Evening

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

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