“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.” StatesWould BeUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsNew YorkStandardsRiversTownsReasonableRiverside Author:Paul Goldberger
“A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.” PeopleSelfCommunityUnitedDangerousDoctorsTownsBunchMinistersRighteousnessGrievanceButchersSelf RighteousnessTroublemaker Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.” PeopleIfsStatesMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesThousandBasesTownsIntuitionExperimentsMediumsSufficientGermanyCampsNaziPersonnelNazi GermanyDeath Camps Author:Stanley Milgram
“If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.” IfsWantStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesOughtPrayingTownsMeetingsCongressBoardsHallsAcceptableSchool BoardBoard Meetings Author:Tim Walberg
“I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.” StatesGamesHoursUnitedUnited StatesTenTownsCentsShellsStranded Author:W. C. Fields
“Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryStatesReasonSchoolChristianJobsLeftUnitedBoysUnited StatesCryDadTownsMovedWestMy DadMilesBeachLakesFloridaPalmsRedneckSwampsAlligatorsNebraskaOrlandoCountry BoyChristian SchoolsPalm Beach Author:Larry the Cable Guy