Robert Moses famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
-- Robert Moses

#Fear #Hands #Sake
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
-- Robert Moses

#Want #Way #Meat
Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
-- Robert Moses

#Hands #Chaos #Divine
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,
-- Robert Moses

#Way #Meat #Metropolis
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
-- Robert Moses

#Idols #Musical #Administration
Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.
-- Robert Moses

#New York #Cities #People
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
-- Robert Moses

#Cities #Taste #Architecture
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
-- Robert Moses

#New York #Believe #Heart
Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
-- Robert Moses

#Criticize
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
-- Robert Moses

#Long #Intellectual #Prodigies
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
-- Robert Moses

#Ghetto #Eggs #People

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