“There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?” MenGivingEyeFatherHouseDealsCitiesMoralTeacherHe ManBabyCreaturesMassMercyStormBreatheCampaignsRuinsOfficialsPurityJust OneReportsCivilizedRighteousnessSavagesVirginsGentlenessSweepingDesolationMeekness Author:Mark Twain
“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.” IfsHomeCertainNextCommunityRoomsCitiesBabyShapesFunctionPatternsBreatheStreamsDistinctionHospitalsTrafficChamberGroceriesRecreationCorridorsTrolleys Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.” CountryStatesRunningCitiesBabyAmerican PoliticsCotton Author:Jesse Jackson
“It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.” IfsWantAmericaMotherCitiesDangerousBabyFitSolutionsAngryPrisonInnocentAbortionWombGangInner CityDangerous PlacesInnocent Life Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.” StillsGuyFatherParentCitiesModernRocksStupidBabyDadTiredFatsBeerRock N RollI'm TiredBeing A ParentModern DayStupid Guy Author:Jim Breuer
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby.” LooksHas BeensCitiesSupportBabyBirthOrganizationProfitAbortionInner CityWedlockNon Profit Author:Benjamin Carson
“In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.” PeopleMindMatterReasonFactsBigsMightWantedPastSexInterestCitiesGroupsBabyCrossesDeedsEngagedMotivatedAncestorGenesPrimitiveGood DeedsSmall GroupsBig CitiesContraceptionExtended FamilyPrehistoricReciprocate Author:Richard Dawkins
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.” SoulTurnsFatherCitiesWifeSadnessBabyEmptyHeavyBottlesDroppingPeasantsReservoirsVodkaCupboardsStrangling Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?” IfsKnowsHappensHouseJesusDarkRoomsCitiesWonderNiceHappenedCryBabyMomLoversAngryScaredCoveredHidingEmbarrassedYardsBlanketNice House Author:George Saunders
“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartFallCoursesCitiesMistakeOur LivesFateBabyShapesLuckyAll ThingsFalling In LovePlanesWho We AreCarrieThings ChangeComfortingSex And The CityMerry Go RoundMr BigPlane Rides Author:Candace Bushnell