“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.” MadeCharacterCertainGivenSpaceEventsBuildingHappeningsTownsPatternsAtomsLockedMoleculesGeometric Author:Christopher Alexander
“The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.” PeopleMindHeartDoeGivenFieldsMountainIndiaTownsLifetimeAffectionForestsDesertVillageHeart And MindHeadlinesLove And Affection Author:Ruskin Bond
“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.” MayGovernmentCertainOrderGivenHoursPlansWorstReadyNewsTownsPopulationDestinationGenocideMinorsAsiaInsignificantPursuedOctoberProvincesExplicitMassacresExterminationArmeniansDeportationArmenian GenocideOttomansMesopotamiaReady To Leave Author:Herbert Adams Gibbons
“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.” WarPoetryGivenLonelinessPoetSolitudeDestructionTownsGoodbyeShatteredCabins Author:Galway Kinnell
“I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.” LooksMadeHomeGivenSpaceDecisionEasierThirdsTownsSpreadStoresBrilliantMade ItWorking ItFarmsEnginesStarbucks Author:Seth Godin
“From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.” PeopleAbleMovingGivenSocialViewsCitiesEconomicCommitmentTownsPoint Of ViewBeneficialHomeownership Author:James Surowiecki
“I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.” WayWantBookEnoughGivenFictionJourneyGoes OnHeroTownsShoesMetaphorStrangerMemoirAdmireMy WayTeaDullPairsPotPieFloatingWant SomethingPolishCrumbsPoniesCorkDespondencyBreeders Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.” ArtFatherHouseGivenCommonBoysVirtueGraceSurvivalTownsBrownGoodsOverwhelmingLazinessRatsOur FatherMothsSparrowsZestCoyotesMack Book:Novels, 1942-1952 Source: Novels, 1942-1952
“King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.” MenGivenSecretBrainGrowingKingsTownsNeighborTechniqueTreasureStealingSubtleUsualInstructionBribeHidden Treasure Author:Kristin Cashore
“A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.” PeopleMenReligionDiesNextGivenReligiousSpecialParticularOvercomingTownsConstantIntenseExcellentInternalsTemplesPriestsBelongingVillageHonourCultGiven UpPreoccupationPriesthoodEsprit De CorpsReligious Cults Book:Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life” ChildrenSoulLyingHouseNamesGivenWonderFailingMysterySonTownsBreadAccomplishedDivinitySacramentsAdorationPilgrimIneffableBethlehemEucharisticBread Of Life Author:Pope John Paul II
“Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.” IfsWorldCountryHelpingHappensGivenCausesFourStreetsPlanetsHugeHundredTownsImpactIncrediblesYou ChooseOur Planet Author:Tom Hanks
“Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation.” LittlesDreamLastsSpiritualJoyGivenLove IsPowerfulLandToolsTownsSakeProfitRedemptionRevelationsWildernessBattlefieldsWildnessLittle Towns Author:T. H. Watkins