Top 100 Mumford's Quotes
#1. As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
Ben Lovett
#2. There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil.
Edward Abbey
#4. My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.
Eloise Mumford
#5. All that matters for philosophers is that it could be true.
Stephen Mumford
#6. However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford
#7. I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
Marcus Mumford
#8. Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.
Lewis Mumford
#9. Make your siren's call and sing all you want. I will not hear what you have to say.
Mumford
#10. It's not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive at the restart
Mumford & Sons
#11. Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
Lewis Mumford
#12. The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
#13. In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.
Lewis Mumford
#14. An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
Ethel Mumford
#15. The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
Lewis Mumford
#16. The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.
Lewis Mumford
#17. I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
Lewis Mumford
#18. Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.
Grant Gustin
#19. My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation ... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.
David Mumford
#21. It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Lewis Mumford
#22. The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
Lewis Mumford
#23. Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford
#24. When PTSD victims shut down, they appear void of all emotion and expression, but all the while they conceal a simmering fury deep within them.
Nigel W.D. Mumford
#25. Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
Lewis Mumford
#26. If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
Howard Mumford Jones
#27. It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
Marcus Mumford
#28. The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Lewis Mumford
#29. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.
Lewis Mumford
#30. It was Stieglitz's endeavor ... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.
Lewis Mumford
#31. Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
Jennifer Egan
#32. The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
Lewis Mumford
#33. But do not ask the price I pay,
I must live with my quiet rage
Tame the ghosts in my head
That run wild and wish me dead
Should you shake my ash to the wind
Lord, forget all of my sins
Oh, let me die where I lie
Neath the curse of my lover's eyes.
Mumford & Sons
#34. A lot of the time it feels like ... music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
Marcus Mumford
#35. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
Marcus Mumford
#36. I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
Eloise Mumford
#37. But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again
Mumford & Sons
#39. Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford
#40. Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.
Lewis Mumford
#41. When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.
Marcus Mumford
#42. Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett
#43. A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'
David Mumford
#45. To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.
Lewis Mumford
#46. I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
Eloise Mumford
#47. She's probably ovaries-deep in a carton of Ben and Jerry's right now while Mumford & Sons plays in the background.
Elle Kennedy
#48. I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.
David Mumford
#49. We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.
Eloise Mumford
#50. Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies
Howard Mumford Jones
#51. The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.
David Mumford
#53. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.
Lewis Mumford
#54. What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself
Lewis Mumford
#56. To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford
#57. I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
Marcus Mumford
#58. Love will not betray you, dismay you or enslave you- it will set you free
Mumford & Sons
#59. So when your hopes on fire,
But you know your desire,
Don't hold a glass over the flame,
Don't let your heart grow cold,
I will call you by name,
I will share your road.
Mumford & Sons
#60. Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.
Lewis Mumford
#61. A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
Lewis Mumford
#62. Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.
Ethel Mumford
#63. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.
Lewis Mumford
#64. Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
Lewis Mumford
#65. Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Lewis Mumford
#66. Monkey mind is actually a Buddhist term that refers to a mind that is restless, agitated, confused, or that is hard to control.
George Mumford
#67. The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
Lewis Mumford
#68. Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford
#70. In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
Lewis Mumford
#72. Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Lewis Mumford
#73. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Lewis Mumford
#74. One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.
Lewis Mumford
#75. Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf
Lewis Mumford
#76. The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Lewis Mumford
#77. Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep, totally free
Mumford & Sons
#79. Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
Dave Haywood
#80. Happiness, I think, lies on the surface ... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels.
Lewis Mumford
#81. Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Howard Mumford Jones
#82. Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Lewis Mumford
#83. If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
Lewis Mumford
#84. The quickest way to get a mans attention, is to no longer want it.
Candace Mumford
#85. As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.
Lewis Mumford
#87. Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
#88. When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.
Lewis Mumford
#89. And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair
Mumford & Sons
#90. Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
Lewis Mumford
#91. So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.
Mumford & Sons
#93. So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light.
Mumford & Sons
#94. Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.
Lewis Mumford
#96. If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
Mumford & Sons
#97. I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.
Marcus Mumford
#98. You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.
Grimes
#99. The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.
Ethel Mumford
#100. The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.
Lewis Mumford
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