"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

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Source : Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961

Lewis Mumford

#Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Life is short, but the years are long.”
“I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.”
“A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.”
“People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.”
“I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.”
“When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.”
“I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.”
“The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.”

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