The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours later would be festooned with people on their way to work.


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There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 19...
MATTHEW DESMOND
One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called...
DESMOND DEKKER
Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't t...
RICHARD DESMOND
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...
DESMOND TUTU
We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS
We are definitely looking at it, like we participated in the earlier bond sale by Indonesia. There i...
DESMOND SOON
There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a nak...
DESMOND MORRIS
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives ...
DESMOND MORRIS
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
DESMOND MORRIS
Life will be the death of us.
EMILY DESMOND
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
DESMOND TUTU
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing as...
MATTHEW DESMOND
What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is qui...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandm...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and ...
PAUL DESMOND
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
PAUL DESMOND
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.
PAUL DESMOND
I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers.
PAUL DESMOND
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
DESMOND TUTU
In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction o...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're o...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. Americ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated road...
DESMOND TUTU
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him...
DESMOND TUTU
Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th...
DESMOND JOLLY
Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY
We do know that with good management, good advertising and outreach -- and of course you have to hav...
DESMOND JOLLY
Some people looked really messed up. There were rivers of blood.
DESMOND EDWARDS
I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK
Going into Thursday's practice I hit a brick wall and felt real bad. I felt like I had to throw up a...
DESMOND CLARK
Kyle played good. He played good for his first game.
DESMOND CLARK
Rex is more instinctive in terms of being able to make plays on the run. Besides that, I don't think...
DESMOND CLARK