“If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.” IfsDesireRealizingCitiesWeekend Author:Frederick Lenz
“The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.” DesireCitiesNew YorkNew York CityElsewhere Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.” KnowsBelieveReasonStoriesEyeRunningDesirePassionI BelieveCitiesFantasyAdventureShiningCampaignsPursueFantasticBridgesHorizonBelieve In GodGlimpseBetter PlaceCravingUtopiaCamelotDeep Desire Author:Bryan Davis
“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.” PeopleMenWantGivingDoeHomeJobsDesireNationsCitiesConditionsPositionPrayingTownsFactoriesGodlyPraying To God Author:Marcus Garvey
“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.” MenNeedsMindChildrenBodyDesireGoalPresidentCommunityCitiesQualityBeautyTalentDemandConcernedHungerPresidentialGoodsQuantityCommerceGreat Society Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.” FirstsKindArtDreamWantedPastDesireLeftSexCitiesGenerationsTownsGet AwayCrew Author:Sarah Schulman
“But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.” IfsMenMovingDesireDifferencesCitiesFireGenerationsActivityEternalLaborFoundationDustGatesAtomsCity Of God Book:The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation
“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.” PeopleIfsWantGivingKindDifferentEnoughCharacterDesireBeliefBitsCitiesUniqueDetermineMythBehaveCollectivesSensibilityUrbanAuras Author:David Byrne
“If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.” IfsChildrenEyeDesireNationsCommunityCitiesSeeingExampleAdultsEndeavorSensibleHumaneKinderThrough The EyesEyes Of A Child Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future