“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.” PeopleKnowsYearsUseNationsWaterCitiesMillionsTechnologyOur LivesEconomicDangerIndustryDrinkWasteRiversMachinesTownsEnvironmentalSmokeSettlingStreamsCarrieFactoriesPollutionCarbonConvenienceMotorUnfoldingShroudsGrime Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love” CareLawCitizensDrinkTownsTire Author:Plato
“Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.” KindCitiesDrinkTownsDown AndHanging OutContinuity Author:Ralph Reese
“If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned.” IfsMayOrderRiskDogDrinkTownsPollutionPoopDinersMilkshakes Author:Richard Rossi
“Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately.” BelieveSaidStillsTogetherFoundCarCollegePlanetsBecomingDrinkBandRiversTownsFinalsEnvyQuittingLuxuryShopsGoing AwayThey SaidPaymentTouringRemindingGarageColoradoInstructorsRaftingCar PaymentsColorado River Author:Joshua Ferris
“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!” KnowsMenTodayDrinkIntelligentTownsWineCalmWanderCupsMuseSkullsIntelligent Man Author:Rumi
“If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.” IfsLittlesEndsEnoughTogetherSleepNiceDrinkEuropeEnglandTownsHotThe End Of The DayBagsVillageHikingEquipmentTrailsBathsTentsInnsAppalachiaHot BathsAppalachian Trail Author:Bill Bryson
“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.” IfsKnowsMadeEnoughHandsEyeTurnsDarkBehindsSkyDrinkThousandLuckyGoldEssenceTownsGreenBellyPurpleAltarsLiquorHerbsFlareMardi GrasGlow In The DarkChartreuse Author:Poppy Z. Brite
“I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.” EnjoyDrinkTownsLocalsStoppingSmall TownMotorcycle Author:George Clooney
“That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?” WantMeanI CanHomeDrinkTownsPoliceLiftsSheepCentreFlocksPubs Author:Andrew Flintoff
“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.” PeopleMenWayFirstsTwoHandsChristianCertainDrinkMetsMen And WomenTownsSmokeSmokingAccustomedTobaccoHerbs Author:Christopher Columbus