Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Errors Quotes, Cities Quotes

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Errors Quotes , Cities Quotes

Even cities have their graves!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Cities Quotes

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cities Quotes , May Quotes

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Cities Quotes

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Cities Quotes , Evil Quotes

It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Christian Quotes , Cities Quotes

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Autry Quotes , Cities Quotes , Perception Quotes

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cells Quotes , Cities Quotes

We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Richman Quotes , Nice Quotes , Cities Quotes

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cities Quotes , Giving Quotes

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Cities Quotes , Liberty Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Cities Quotes

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Life Quotes , Cities Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cities Quotes , Reflecting Upon Quotes

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Travel Quotes , Cities Quotes

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Cities Quotes , Heaven Quotes

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Cities Quotes

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Bridges Quotes , Cities Quotes

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Cities Quotes

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Travel Quotes , Cities Quotes