The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

- Le Corbusier -

Children have more need of models than of critics.

- Joseph Joubert -

For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball

- William Blake -

I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

- James Rhinehart -

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

- Thomas Alva Edison -

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.

- Mother Theresa -

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut -

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

- Kin Hubbard -

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

- Bayard Taylor -

The soul is healed by being with children.

- English proverb -

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- David Fyfe -

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Miriam Robbins -

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

- Ingrid Bergman -

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Russian proverb -

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

- George Bernard Shaw -

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

- Francis Bacon, Sr. -

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

- C. C. Colton -

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

- Thomas Edison -

Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russel Lowell -

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

- Ferdinand Magellan -

Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright

God has got his phone off the hook, babe
Would he even pick up if he could
Its been a while since we saw that child
Hanging round this neighbourhood
You see his mother dealing in a doorway
See father christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sisters eyes are a blister
The high street never looked so low

- U2 -

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space - it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

- Hubert H. Humphrey -

Architecture is frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

An arch never sleeps.

- James Fergusson -

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

- Henry David Thoreau -

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Emailiano Zapata -

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

- William Allingham -

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

- Rachel Carson -

Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.

- William Cullen Bryant -

Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.

- Richard Franck -

Hey, hey, dragonfly
I’d like to ride with you tonight
Take in your show, take up your life
Dragonfly, I really like your style

- Fernando Ortega -

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow.

- Barbara Walters -

If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.

- Akan proverb -

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

- Cavett Robert -

Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world.

- Paul Touriner -

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban -

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

- John Milton -

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

- French proverb -

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

- Patrick Young -

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

- Cicero -

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

- Anthony J. D'angelo -

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

- Elizabeth I -

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

- Anacharsis -

Rust wastes more than use.

- French prverb -

Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.

Az állatoknak csupán két nagy csoportja, az emberek és a hangyák, folytatnak jól szervezett tömeges hadviselést.

- Charles H. Maskins -

Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping.

- Unknown -

Veni, Vedi, Visa: Jöttem, láttam, vásároltam.

- Ismeretlen -

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.

- Unknown -

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

- William Baldwin -