"The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Diversity Quotes #People Quotes

“I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.”
“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
“The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.”
“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.”

Source : "A Nomad Repaints the Globe" by PREMJI, PartridgeIndia, (p. 70), 2013.
“The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.”
“I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they're sleeping and there's me just standing behind the bed. It was great.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Lords are lordliest in their wine.”

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