Gentrifiers Are The New Colonizers Quotes & Sayings

Civilized life exacts its toll. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down. — Auliq Ice

There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. — Michael Pollan

You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems. — Jason Fried

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? — John Green

I'm very affected by what I watch and read. — Paloma Faith

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story. — Thomas Boswell

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires. — Wayne W. Dyer

Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins — Frank Giampaolo

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. — Raymond Queneau

For me, laughter is how we take a much needed break from the heartache, such that when we turn to face it again, it has by some miracle grown smaller in size and intensity, yet not disappeared altogether. — Liz Curtis Higgs

As long as the wetland looks pretty and also attracts ducks from time to time, it is regarded as a complete success. An attractive appearance is fine and is of considerable concern in urban developments.

It is the pretense that such wetlands also create rich habitats which is objectionable, when urban development is the primary cause of loss of diversity in a wide range of ecosystems around cities including wetlands.

The one ecologically positive thing that most created wetlands do a reasonable job of is water treatment, because the limited range of plants likely to survive the semi-toxic soils and waters of newly created wetlands are invariably colonisers that will also use up a wide range of nutrients. — Nick Romanowski

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker. — Tim Robbins