"We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness."

-- Enrique Penalosa

#Children Quotes #Cities Quotes #Car Quotes

“I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. â€œI thought Iâ€™d die for wanting you.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Heather and Velvet”, p.307, Fanfare
“Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.”
“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”
“My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.”

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