“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.” BelieveMeanChildrenLongEnoughKidsJusticeLibertyGenerationsNew YorkPaperBuiltIdealsOur ChildrenCelebrateConcreteWorthlessMississippiReservationsBaltimoreEquality And JusticeRidgesLiberty And JusticeDeltaFergusonEquality For AllAppalachiaWords On PaperMississippi Delta Author:Barack Obama
“The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.” New YorkGloryBuiltGlory Of GodCathedrals Book:Civilisation Source: Civilisation
“I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.” StuffEffortSuccessfulToo MuchNew YorkTypeInvolvedProjectsBuiltEastParksConservationEast Africa Author:Edward Norton
“The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.” LongStillsFactsRunningFallCitiesNew YorkComputerBuiltExtraordinaryToleranceEnormousBridgesNew York CityEngineersTrafficElephantsFalling ApartInfrastructureAntsSubway Author:Alan Weisman
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.” UsedHouseCareersNew YorkQuietBuiltNoiseEnd TimesSpend TimeManhattanQuiet TimeNina Author:Nikki Giovanni
“[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.” WorldLittlesRoomsNew YorkBuildingBrotherBuiltFairsDrawingMy BrotherCoveredMiniatures Author:Maurice Sendak