Quotes About Green Spaces

#1. Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.

Evan Davis

#2. I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.

Norman Foster

#3. City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

Bruce Babbitt

#4. As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

Charles Duhigg

#5. The green spaces in Pyongyang were immense and many in number, but not as immense as the monuments.

David Baldacci

#6. A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For

Neal Shusterman

#8. Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

Theodore Gericault

#9. I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

John Banville

#10. It's so unrewarding, being a woman.

Soseki Natsume

#11. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.

Antony Flew

#12. When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.

Pierre Omidyar

#13. Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

Renita D'Silva

#14. The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless it was absolutely necessary.

Mira Grant

#15. It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

Jane Wagner

#16. I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

Mara Wilson

#17. Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.

Al Gore

#18. It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

Hal Sparks

#19. And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Ed Rendell

#20. Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Thomas Friedman

#21. In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are.

Keshni Kashyap

#22. Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.

Kathryn Stockett

#23. Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

Eduardo Paes

#24. Gossip is when you hear something you like
about someone you don't.

Jane Seabrook