"While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Pride Quotes #Cities Quotes #Government Quotes

“Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.”
“Whatâ€™s happened is that, almost overnight, weâ€™ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
“People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protect which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.”
“My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.”

Source : "Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.
“Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.”

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com
“I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth.”

Source : "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.
“This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.”

You may also like:

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
Bernard Bailyn
Historian
James H. Billington
Librarian
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher
Margaret Halsey
Writer
Richard Hofstadter
Historian
Richard Posner
Jurist
Rosalind Miles
Author
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President