"Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives."

-- Nathan Glazer

#Cities Quotes #Remains Quotes #Countryside Quotes

“If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.”
“The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.”
“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”
“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
“I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.”
“Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.”
“Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.”

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.”

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