Montgomery Schuyler quotes

“It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.”
-- Montgomery Schuyler

Source : Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”

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“Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.”
-- Montgomery Schuyler

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“Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”

“We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.”

“The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.”

“Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.”

“A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.192, Big Earth Publishing

“Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.”

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

“Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.”

Source : Song: In Your Time, Album: Greatest Hits

“To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.”

Source : George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

“The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.”