Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
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If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...
GEORGE CARLIN ..."You couldn't be more wrong", I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your ...
JOHN GREEN Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTIN The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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LEWIS MUMFORD Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
LEWIS MUMFORD Only entropy comes easy.
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LEWIS MUMFORD The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a consci...
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LEWIS MUMFORD To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
LEWIS MUMFORD Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery ...
LEWIS MUMFORD Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
LEWIS MUMFORD Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parki...
LEWIS MUMFORD However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...
LEWIS MUMFORD New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
LEWIS MUMFORD The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a sci...
LEWIS MUMFORD Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past
LEWIS MUMFORD A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
LEWIS MUMFORD Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers
LEWIS MUMFORD The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a re...
LEWIS MUMFORD It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the mea...
LEWIS MUMFORD Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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LEWIS MUMFORD Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
LEWIS MUMFORD Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed
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LEWIS MUMFORD Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the need...
LEWIS MUMFORD Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find hi...
PETER DE VRIES It becomes more concrete, tangible - the coolest thing is our triple slide.
KATHY CONNOLLY The round-table conference is a breath of fresh air. This is the first concrete step to suggest that...
ANAND K. SAHAY Our lover's are like the petals of a flower,
But our first love is the stem.
STEVEN R. DIXON The result of the Ray Lewis case is that the only person to leave this courtroom with a conviction i...
BRUCE HARVEY America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national cult...
PAUL TSONGAS We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge
Una...
TITE KUBO I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
DAMIAN LEWIS We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge
Unable to ste...
SOSUKE AIZEN The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.
ALVEDA KING The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
PONCE DENIS ÉCOUCHARD LEBRUN Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON We build all of our houses out of concrete blocks.
ELIZABETH HARRIS I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark ...
BEBE REXHA Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was c...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Samsara is one flower. Nirvana is another flower. Enlightenment happens when both the flowers blooms...
AMIT RAY Our cook-off runs in conjunction with our Lewis & Clark Festival. When they entered South Dakota, th...
DIANE NORTON Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.
ALAN ADAMS It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pret...
JOE ALLBAUGH It's our national sport, so this is the greatest.
HENRIK SEDIN Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
TYSON FURY The National Western is a symbol of our culture, perhaps a gaudy expression of who we are in our wil...
KATHLEEN KELLEY He wasn't here all summer and it would have been unfair to Terrance (Lewis). Terrance is a key part ...
JAMES IANDOLI Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the ga...
MANTI TE'O All the concrete is being crushed into aggregate and will be used for the foundation underneath the ...
RICHARD RUSSELL Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the
wi...
C.S. LEWIS [Winning] the national championship is really one of our goals.
COLLIN WALLACE Our ultimate goal is to get to the (national) championship.
KATIE SCHRADER There was a hooting sound and our concrete house was shaking. We ran out of our homes.
PRANNJANA BORDOLOI Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
CHARLES E. WILSON Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.
WILLIAM HAMILTON Understanding our records is key to understanding our history. As custodians of America's national m...
ALLEN WEINSTEIN Our No. 2 (Hiroki Takagi) has been hurt so I kept him out of the lineup today. Our big match is Wedn...
BOB ORR You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
AMIT RAY Our whole team's goal is the NCAA Title, the national title. So we're all working every day to earn ...
COREY HARTUNG The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
TED DEXTER If that's not a national problem, what is? ... And all we get from our national leaders is silence a...
BRUCE BABBITT They're safe. They were up in a very tough concrete building up on the second floor where our emerge...
HARRY WADSWORTH Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat...
MICHAEL OAKESHOTT For these three reasons -- national security, how China evolves, our commercial interests -- I belie...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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JAMAL LEWIS We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
LEWIS THOMAS My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
JULIETTE LEWIS There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C.S. LEWIS I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...
LEWIS GRIZZARD Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
LEWIS GRIZZARD When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be...
TERENCE LEWIS We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repai...
MERIWETHER LEWIS I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...
C.S. LEWIS The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. LEWIS Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I&...
AL LEWIS Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha...
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