"It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity."

-- J. B. Jackson

#Giving Quotes #Identity Quotes #Social Quotes

“If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.”
“A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.”
“Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now”
“The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.”
“America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.”

Source : Shoeless Joe pt. 4 (1982)
“And itâ€™s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.”
“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.”
“President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.”

You may also like:

Herbert Muschamp
Architectural Critic
Ian McHarg
Architect
Jacques Barzun
Historian
James Geary
Writer
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Author
Julian Huxley
Film director
Steven Holl
Architect
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Novelist
Yi-Fu Tuan